PS261 Lecture Notes - Chewing Tobacco, United States Pharmacopeia, Jean Nicot
Document Summary
The spanish - amerindians sometimes, adopted tobaco" but tobacco into tubes made reeds, started a fire at one end of the reed and drank the smoke from the other end, or rolled them up like a cigar. Powdered tobacco was sometimes put into the mouth or such in the nose though tube, the leaves were used to treat woods variety of medicinal use. Initially rejected by the church, hundreds of years after columbus"s voyage it became popular in europe commercial importation in quantity in 1600s. Spread of tobacco: more than 60 species of nicotiana nicotiana tobacum: major species grown today in more than 100 countries, large-leaf, used to be indigenous to south america and spanish monopolized production. Nicotiana rustica: small-leaf and existed in the west indies and north. Snuff: snuff replaced the pipe in england, upper class and middle class by. Revolutionary war: played important role major products in which france would lend the colonies money.
