History and origins of tobacco smoking
Title: History and origins of tobacco smoking
Category: /Social Sciences/Language & Speech
Details: Words: 567 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
History and origins of tobacco smoking
Category: /Social Sciences/Language & Speech
Details: Words: 567 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Tobacco smoking, using both pipes and cigars, was common to many Native American cultures of the Americas. It is depicted in the art of the Classic-era Maya civilization about 1,500 years ago. The Mayans smoked tobacco and also mixed it with lime and chewed it in a snuff-like substance. Among the Mayans tobacco was used as an all-purpose medicine, and was widely believed to have magical powers, being used in divinations and talismans. It was also
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with a lit cigar in his hand, announcing "Gentlemen, you may smoke", initiating the upper class British smoking room. Tobacco succeeded in having their product included in military rations during World War I, where under the stress of warfare many soldiers took up smoking, becoming habitual smokers. After the war, during the Roaring Twenties, cigarette smoking was portrayed in advertising as part of a glamorous carefree lifestyle, and became socially acceptable for women as well.