The history of cigarettes
It is generally believed that tobacco originated in the Americas. Archaeological discoveries show that tobacco entered the lives of American residents when human beings were still in primitive society. At that time, when people were collecting food, they unconsciously picked a plant leaf and put it in their mouths to chew. Because of its strong stimulating effect, it just played the role of restoring physical strength and refreshing, so they often picked it and chewed it. Over time, it becomes a hobby. Native Americans have had the custom of worshipping the sun and sacrificing smoking since long ago. Archaeologists believe the earliest evidence of human use of tobacco has been found in a relief sculpture in a shrine built in AD 432 in Berenque, in the southern state of Japas, Mexico. It is a semi-relief painting. The relief depicts a Maya man with a long cigarette pipe smoking a pipe. When holding an ancestor worship ceremony, he used a pipe to blow and smoke, and his head was wrapped in tobacco leaves. Archaeologists also found tobacco and ash left over from pipes in caves where Indians lived in northern Arizona. According to research, these relics were dated around 650 AD. The recorded discovery of human tobacco smoking was in El Salvador in the 14th century. Tobacco originated in Central and South America, Oceania and some islands in the South Pacific. There are 66 varieties found, and only 2 varieties are cultivated and utilized, namely common tobacco (N.tabacum.L.), also known as safflower tobacco and yellow flower tobacco (N.ustica L.), which are cultivated and utilized by American Indians. Tobacco first. When Columbus's expedition arrived in Cuba in 1492, his sailor Rodrigo de Jerez (Jerez for short) found that the local natives of Cuba were smoking the smoke from a plant around a fire. The adventurous Jerez smokes with the natives and is fascinated by it. After returning to Europe, tobacco and smoking recreational methods quickly spread in Europe. Jarez is also known as Europe's first smoker. In May 1536, after a long expedition, an explorer named Jiadi returned to America to witness the use of tobacco by the Indians. He made a more detailed account than Columbus's record: "They put tobacco in the sun. It was dried under the sun, and then hung around their necks a small sack of calfskin, a hollow stone or wood, much like a pipe; and when they were happy, they crushed the tobacco and placed it in the pipe one end, lit a fire, and on the other end took deep breaths through their mouths, filling them completely with smoke, until the smoke came out of their mouths and nostrils like smoke from a chimney. They said Doing this keeps them warm and healthy. We've tried this smoke, put it in our mouths, and it's hot, like eating pepper." Regarding the earliest record that the Indians were the earliest human beings to smoke tobacco, the Spanish-Pan's "Personal Experience". Pan recounts his experience of following Columbus's second voyage to the West Indies in 1497, where he describes his discovery of Indians smoking tobacco. In addition, there is also the "General History of the Indians" published in 1535 by the maritime historian Pernantis Oritto, which records: "Among other evil habits, the Indians have a particularly harmful hobby of is to smoke a certain kind of cigarette in order to produce an unconscious state of anesthesia. Their chiefs use a tube shaped like a ya, which is inserted into the nostrils at both ends, and at one end of the tube is filled with burning weeds, which they use way to smoke till they lose consciousness and lie on the ground stretched out like a drunken sleeper...I have a hard time imagining how much pleasure they get out of this habit unless they have been drinking before smoking ." Tobacco seeds were brought back to Portugal by sailors in 1558 and spread throughout Europe. In 1612, British colonial officer John Rolfe planted tobacco on a large scale in Jamestown, Virginia, and began the tobacco trade. But that will be later than Columbus's sailor Jarez. In 1880, James Bensack invented a bizarre machine that could roll a ration of shredded tobacco leaves in a shaping tube into a roll, and then use a knife to cut it to the appropriate length. This machine was later revolutionized by James Duke. In the mid-1880s, the production of cigarettes in the Americas exploded. Later, in terms of packaging, cigarettes borrowed a Swedish equipment for packaging matches, realizing modern packaging. In 1931, people originally added a layer of cellophane to the packaging of cigarettes in order to keep cigarettes fresh.
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