History of Cigarettes

There is an interesting history(www.cigarettes-below-cost.com/historyofcigarettes.html) to the start of tobacco. It goes all the way back to a plant in the nightshade family, which also includes potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, and chili peppers. It may have been cultivated in the Peruvian Andes as far back as 5000 BC. The first documented tobacco users were the Maya, who flourished in Central America between 1500 BC and AD 900. By the time Columbus showed up in 1492, tobacco and its use had spread throughout the Americas. Native Americans valued tobacco's medicinal properties. It can both stimulate and tranquilize the smoker. Native American shamans weren't gathering for a puff in the parlor. They took tobacco in doses large enough to produce hallucinations, trances, or even death. It's hard to smoke your way to a dose that large, so they used other methods: chewing tobacco leaves, drinking tobacco tea, snorting tobacco snuff, or even taking tobacco enemas. This was a foolish way to achieve a pointless goal. This shows how from the beginning tobacco and nicotine has had no purpose of being concumed by the human body.

Tobacco started to take off when Columbus returned to the Old World, he took tobacco with him. By the 16th century, Europe had acquired a taste for this new "wonder drug" even though Europeans were more likely to smoke cigars than take tobacco enemas. Tobacco has had an interesting beginning and a even brighter future. Tobacco is one of the most successful legal drugs there is today. Tobacco sells increase every year by at least 2.5 percent. This is crazy because how come we dont have enough money for healthcare but there is all this money going towards a killing habit. Every year money goes towards activities and it seems like the important things like healthcare and charities end up with the short end of the stick. How can we as a nation spend so much money on an foolishness. There is so much money being spent wrong. Tobacco sells thousands of cigarettes to millions of people each year and it is saddening.