Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-11-06
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Chronology and Statistics Of Tobacco.
By JOEL MUNsELB,

East-1ndian his betel, and the European and
merlcan their tobacco. Against these practices
is useless to declaim. 1t was in vain that the
arliament Of England discouraged the fagrant de.
OF smoking; in vain did James I. assure his
bjec,s that the custom was "loathsome to the
C, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain,
ingerous to the lungs, and in the black sinking
me thereof nearest resembling the horrible Sty.
IN smoke of the pit that is bo,tomless." The
ong arm of the law opposed it; the priest and
physician, the moralist and the philanthropis
ayed themselves against il; all to no purpose.
position only served to make proselytes, and the
'tom has spread far and wide under persecution,
over the whole surface of the globe its fumes
Sc constantly to the atmosphere, and it is at this
'ment, perhaps, the most general luxury in ex.
nee. In the city of New York alone, the con-
np,ion of cigars is computed at fen thousand
lars ddy-a sam greater than that which its
iabi'anls pay for their daily bread and in the
ole country the annual consumption oftobacco
's,imate'l at one hundred million pounds, being
en- pounds TO every man, woman and child, at
annual cost TO the consumer, of t,ocnig millions
ioHars
t may be curious 10 marx by what gradarions
use of tobacco has reached this grand crisis
subject attracted the attention Of Pref. Beck
IN of Gottgen, about the middle of the last
rary, who took great pains to ascertain the dates
Is introduction into the different countries of
rope, and from whose work some of the follow
items are gathered. He conjecures that even
're the discovery of The fourth quarter of the
e, sort of tobacco was smoked in Asia; and
opinion was also entertained by the celebrated
eer, NJ. Paas, who SAYS that, "Among the
aese, and among the Mogol tribes who had the
intercourse with them. the custom Of smoking
'general, so frequent, and become SO indispen>
"a luxury the tobacco purse affixed to their
so necessary an article of dress the form Of
pipes, from which the Dutch seem to have Ia
the model of theirs original; and, lastly,
preparation of the yellow leaves which are mere.
ibbed to pieces and then put into the pipe, so
'har, that we cannot possibly derive all this by
way of Europe from America, especially as In.
where the habit of smoking tobacco is not so
raj, intervenes between Persia and China" 1t
he too late now TO investigate the subject, even
should be considered worth the trouble. But
is one more important confirmation of Prof
Smann's conjecture to be adduced from Ulloa's
age 10 America, who says: ut is not probable
the Europeans learned the use Of tobacco
America; for as it is very ancient in the
IN countries, II is natural to suppose that the
Wedge Oft came to Europe from those regions
leans oflhe intercourse carried on with them
.e commercial stat on the Mediterranean Sea-
here, not even in those parts of America where
obacco grows wild, is the use of it, and that
for smoking, either general, or very frequent"
have nothing, however, authentic, earlier than
blowing
1896, Romanus Paine, a Spanish monk,
Columbus, on his second departure from A.
"a had left in that country, published the frs,
INT oftobacco, with which he became acquant.
81. Domingo. He gave it the name Of
a, cOhG55a, giOia.
1919, tobacco is said to have been discovered
&C Spanards near Tobasco. though it is assign.
the next year.
1888, the negroes had already habituated
selves TO the use of it, and cultivated i, on the
atoms of their masters. Europeans likewise
ly smoked it. We also find from passage
ufiers Voyage, tha, i, was used in Canada.
$50, tobacco was introduced into Europe
st. Domingo, by Spanish gentleman named
andez de Toledo, who brought a small qutn.
ITO Spain and Portugal. In the same year
Nicot, envoy from the court of France to
gal, first Transmitted thence to Paris, to Queen
arine de Medicis, seeds of the tobacco plant
rom this circumstance it acquired the name
fdna. When tobacco began 10 be used in
ce, i; was called herbe du grand prieure, from
rand prieure of the house of Lorraine, who
hen very fond of il. 1t was also called herbs
Croir, after Cardinal Prosper ST. Croir
on his return from Portugal, where he had
nuncio from the Pope, introduced the custom
ing tobacco. 1t was received at once in france
he Papal States with great enthusiasm, in the
of powder, or snuff; it was sometime after
'eriod, that smoking became popular.
1865, Conrad Gesner became acquainted with
co. AT that time several botanists cultivated
their gardens. The same year Sir John
kins carried tobacco from Florida to England,
"sIl men wondered wha, it meant"
1870, they smoked in Holland out ofconical
composed Of palm leaves, plated together.
1875, first appeared figure of the plant in
eThsvol's COsmographe.