In , Columbus was warmly greeted by the Native American tribes he encountered when he first set foot on the new continent. They brought gifts of fruit, food, spears, and more and among those gifts were dried up leaves of the tobacco plant. As they were not edible and had a distinct smell to them, those leaves, which the Native Americans have been smoking for over 2 millennia for medicinal and religious purposes, were thrown overboard. However, Columbus soon realized that dried tobacco leaves are a prized possession among the natives, as they bartered with them and often bestowed them as a gift.
Rodrigo de Jerez and Luis de Torres are the first Europeans to observe smoking. It was on Cuba and Jerez becomes a staunch smoker, bringing the habit back with him to Spain. However, thanks to a lot of seafarers at the time, smoking became an entrenched habit in both Spain and Portugal before long.
In the 15 th century, Portuguese sailors were planting tobacco around nearly all of their trading outposts, enough for personal use and gifts. By mid-century they started growing tobacco commercially in Brazil — it was soon a sought-after commodity and traded across the ports in Europe and the Americas.
By the end of the 16 th century, tobacco plant and use of tobacco were both introduced to virtually every single country in Europe. Tobacco was snuffed or smoked, depending on the preference and doctors claimed that it had medicinal properties. Some, such as Nicolas Monardes in , went as far as to write a book to outline 36 specific ailments that tobacco could supposedly cure. Tobacco products gained a strong foothold in the US somewhere around the Revolutionary War. War and tobacco go hand in hand as you will soon see and in it was used by the revolutionaries as collateral for the loans they were getting from France.
They were the first to start selling hand-rolled Turkish cigarettes but the practice was soon picked up by J. There is no safe level of drug use. Use of any drug always carries some risk. The following effects may be experienced among people who do not normally smoke tobacco products:. For people who smoke tobacco products regularly, they will build up a tolerance to the immediate short-term effects of smoking tobacco, and may experience the following effects after smoking:.
Regular smoking of tobacco products which contain nicotine have well documented negative effects on health and is recognised as a major preventable cause of premature death and disability around the world.
Smoking cigarettes containing nicotine are causally linked to the following cancers i. Passive smoking is when someone breathes in smoke from other people smoking. The effects of using nicotine with other drugs — including over-the-counter or prescribed medications — can be unpredictable and could cause:. Giving up nicotine after using it for a long time is challenging because the body has to get used to functioning without it. Withdrawal symptoms usually start within 2—3 hours after you last use tobacco.
The symptoms may last from a few days to a few weeks. These symptoms can include:. You may still crave a cigarette for months and years after giving up. Federal and state laws make it an offence to sell or supply tobacco products to people under 18 years of age. It is also illegal for anyone under 18 years to purchase tobacco products.
There are laws that regulate and restrict how tobacco products are advertised, promoted and packaged. There are also laws and regulations that restrict smoking in public areas such as shopping centres, cafes and workplaces. Most states and territories have laws that ban smoking in cars with children.
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