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Tobacco is an agricultural prouct processed from the fresh leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It is most commonly smoked in the form of cigarettes or cigars. Tobacco has been growing on both American continents since about 6000 BC and was used by native cultures by around 3000 BC. It has been smoked, in one form or another, since about 3000 BC. Tobacco has a long history of use in Native American culture, and played an important role in the political, economic, and cultural history of the United States of America.

Trivia about tobacco

  • Phillip Morris is the largest customer of Universal Corporation, the world's largest dealer in this commodity
  • A coin put in a 1615 vending machine opened a locked top so customers could receive a pipeful of this
  • John Rolfe, who married Pocahontas, was 1st to grow this crop commercially in Virginia
  • It's the crop John Rolfe planted in Virginia that became a major cash crop
  • When the natives wanted to form an alliance with the Europeans, they shared a calumet stuffed with this
  • England's James I called it "Hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs"
  • The Powhatan Indians of Virginia called this crop "apooke"
  • In 1604 King James I called this plant a "perpetual stinking torment" & "dangerous to the lungs"; he was right
  • In addition to cultivating Pocahontas, John Rolfe learned to cultivate this cash crop from the Indians
  • A Kenly, North Carolina museum is devoted to the history & economic impact of this crop
  • In the Black Patch War of 1906-09 growers tried to break monopolies of this product
  • Smoked in pipes, kinnikinnick was a mixture of sumac, the inner bark of dogwood or red willow & this plant
  • The first expedition to Roanoke returned home to England with this leafy plant of the nightshade family
  • Virginia's Blue Law of the 1620s said that if you missed church on Sunday the penalty was a pound of this
  • England's James I denounced this product in 1604; the pope banned it in Seville churches in 1642
  • Perhaps from the Caribbean taino for "pipe for smoking", it's the dried leaves of a plant of the nightshade family
  • (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Monitcello, Virginia.) Until the early 1790s, this was Monticello's main cash crop, the cultivation of which Jefferson called "productive of infinite wretchedness"
  • John Rolfe came to the new world to grow this cash crop; picking up Pocahontas was a bonus

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