2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Among the plants we inherited from the American Indians, there was a plant-retribution for the pale-faced for the triumphant march through foreign territories. It was called "Tabak". Slowly but surely, the revenge of the destroyed civilization was accumulating, so that in centuries to begin to hit the enemy from the inside
Smoke from nostrils
Imagine the surprise of Christopher Columbus's team when they saw the Indians sucking in smoke from a tube twisted from a leaf of an unknown plant, and then releasing this smoke through their nostrils. The picture resembled children's fairy tales about fire-breathing dragons, however, it is not known whether these tough guys were read fairy tales in childhood.
Be that as it may, but at the end of the 15th century, Europeans were fascinated by a similar practice of using plant leaves, and therefore they stocked up on tobacco seeds and safely brought a delayed-action mine to Europe.
Tobacco and the Inquisition
The life of medieval Europe was not distinguished by an abundance of entertainment and was strictly controlled by inquisitors. Therefore, smoking tobacco, which made it possible at least for a short time to escape from the gloomy life, was to the liking of men.
When the wife of a sailor, returning from a victorious journey, noticed a certain oddity behind her husband, expressed in the fact that from time to time the husband retired in the room and began to blow smoke out of his nostrils, she, like a true Christian, denounced her husband, suspecting the participation of evil spirits in such behavior.
True, the inquisitors, who themselves resorted to the help of intoxicating aromas, acquitted the sailor. The Almighty, who gave people the right to choose, did not interfere, deciding to observe what would come of it in the future.
Today we are witnessing the consequences of such a decision. Smokers are more vulnerable to respiratory diseases, and they are very poisonous to the lives of those who do not smoke.
Two types of Tobacco
Sometimes one gets the impression that Humanity is impatient to disappear from the face of the Earth, and therefore he makes a choice in favor of things that destroy him.
While plants useful for humans (sunflower, tomato, potato) have been making their way to garden beds for centuries, tobacco has rapidly gained popularity, although the process of growing it is more expensive than growing the listed vegetables.
As a result, two types of Tobacco have successfully taken root in Europe:
1.
Real Tobacco - herbaceous plant with large leaves, growing up to 3 meters high. The plant is thermophilic.
2.
Makhorka - a herbaceous plant, inferior in size to the previous species, but more tolerant of cold, which allows its cultivation in more northern regions. True, the quality of tobacco from Makhorka is lower.
Smoking is harmful to health
The habit of "smoking" is so firmly and deeply ingrained in Mankind that neither the punishment with a whip (there was such a period in Russia), nor any terrible warnings and horrible pictures on cigarette packs do not reduce the number of smokers.
Unfortunately, in the life that television depicts for us, the heroes, with the slightest excitement, grab a cigarette or a glass of brandy, setting an example for everyone else who is not used to making independent decisions.
Many types of smoking have been invented. Someone smokes standard factory cigarettes or cigarettes; rich people flaunt thick, expensive cigars; In the countries of the East, an apparatus called a hookah was invented, in which tobacco smoke, before entering the lungs of a person, passes through a jug of water that cools it.
Useful Uses of Tobacco
There is nothing useless in nature. This postulate is also true for Tobacco.
Residents of "Asienda" have to resort to his help when annoying insects try to claim a share of the harvest, comfortably settling on the leaves of vegetable and ornamental plants. Then the gardener acquires tobacco dust and sprinkles it on the plants, blocking the path for pests.
Livestock farmers have been successful in using tobacco stalks by adding them to their feed.
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