At present, it is generally believed that tobacco originated in the United States. Archaeological findings show that tobacco entered the lives of American residents when human beings were still in primitive society. At that time, when people were gathering food, they would unconsciously pick a plant leaf and put it in their mouth to chew. Because it is irritating, it just plays the role of restoring physical strength and refreshing, so they often pick it and chew it, which becomes a hobby.

Archaeologists believe that the earliest evidence of human use of tobacco so far is the relief in a temple built in 432 AD in Belenke, Chiapas, southern Mexico. It is a semi-relief painting, which shows a Maya with a long pipe and a pipe. At the ancestor worship ceremony, the pipe blows smoke and the head is wrapped with tobacco leaves. Archaeologists also found tobacco and ash residues in caves inhabited by Indians in northern Arizona, USA. According to textual research, the age of these relics is about 650 AD. According to records, Salvadorans smoked tobacco in14th century.

Long ago, Native Americans had the custom of worshipping the sun and offering sacrifices to smoking. Some archaeological analysis also found that American residents had the habit of smoking 3500 years ago. With the further exploration of American history, the history of tobacco may extend to an earlier period of Indian history. In addition, safflower tobacco, which is widely planted today, likes warmth, so the view that tobacco originated in tropical America is more convincing.

Tobacco is native to America, Oceania and some islands in the South Pacific. At present, 66 species have been found, and only two species are cultivated and utilized, namely, common tobacco (N. tabacum L.), also known as safflower tobacco and yellow tobacco (NRustica L.). American Indians were the first people to grow and use tobacco. 1492 10 10 In October, Columbus led an expedition to America and saw the local people smoking.

In May 1536, an explorer named Katie returned to America after a long expedition to witness Indians using tobacco. He made a more detailed account than Columbus: "They dried tobacco in the sun and hung a small bag made of calf leather, hollow stone or wood around their necks, much like a pipe;" After a while, they were happy, so they sliced the tobacco at one end of the pipe, lit it, and breathed deeply through their mouths at the other end, so that their bodies were completely filled with smoke until it came out of their mouths and nostrils, just like smoke from a chimney. They say it can keep them warm and healthy. We've tried this kind of cigarette, too. Put it in your mouth. Spicy as pepper. "

The earliest record that Indians were the first people to smoke tobacco was the personal experience of Pan Shi, a Spaniard. Pan Shi described his second voyage to the West Indies with Columbus in 1497, in which he described the scene when he found Indians smoking.

In addition, there is the "General History of India" published by the maritime historian Prentiss Ovitu in 1535, which records: "Among other bad habits, Indians have a particularly harmful hobby, that is, smoking some kind of cigarettes ... in order to produce unconscious anesthesia. Their chief used a tube shaped like a ya to insert both ends of the ya into his nostrils, and one end of the tube was filled with burning weeds. They smoke like this until they lose consciousness and lie on the ground with their limbs stretched out like drunkards ... I can't imagine what happiness they get from this habit unless they have already drunk before smoking. "

Sailors brought tobacco seeds back to Portugal in 1558, and then they spread all over Europe. 16 12 years, British colonial official John Rolfe planted tobacco in Jamestown, Virginia, and started the tobacco trade.

Tobacco was introduced to China in the middle of16th century. At first, dry tobacco was introduced, which has been planted for more than 400 years. 1900 planting flue-cured tobacco in Taiwan Province province. After 19 10, flue-cured tobacco was successfully planted in Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Liaoning and other places. From 1937 to 1940, flue-cured tobacco was planted in Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places, and developed into a major tobacco-producing area in China. In 1950s, oriental tobacco was introduced, and burley tobacco was introduced in 1960s, which was successfully planted in Xinchang, Zhejiang and Jianshi, Hubei respectively. Huanghua tobacco was introduced into northern China from Russian about 200 years ago.

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