CRT - Tobacco University Exam 2026
Questions and Answers
1492 - Correct answer-Columbus discovers tobacco in Cuba
Pre-Columbian - Correct answer-Evidence of tobacco use in Patagonia from 7K
years prior
Arawak Indians - Correct answer-Emigrated from SA to Cuba and brought tobacco
seeds with them
Tainos - Correct answer-Descendants of Arawaks -- showed Spaniards the
growing/processing of tobacco
1518 - Correct answer-Hernan Cortez brings seeds back to King Charles V
1520 - Correct answer-Spanish settlers in Cuba cultivate tobacco for personal use
1602 - Correct answer-Pipe smoking reaches Europe, China, India, and Japan
1612 - Correct answer-Jamestown settlers cultivate tobacco
- John Rolfe first to grow tobacco commercially for export
1676 - Correct answer-the "Cigar" is born in Sevilla Spain
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, 1700s - Correct answer-Cigar factories sprout up all across Europe
1817 - Correct answer-King Ferdinand VII made the production/sale of tobacco a
legal endeavor in Cuba
-Cigar production had been illegal for taxation and control purposes
1827 - Correct answer-Don Jaime Partagas establishes Flor de Tobacos Partages y
Compania
1830s - Correct answer-Beginning of cigar bands
1850 - Correct answer-Dutch merchants Gustave Bock marks his cigars with a
paper band
1920s - Correct answer-Cigar rolling machine is introduced in America
1959 - Correct answer-Cuban Revolution instigates an exodus of Cuban cigar
makers to Canary islands, DR, Central America, and US
Indian Medicinal Use of Tobacco for: - Correct answer--Religious purposes
-Healing open wounds
-Toothaches and headaches
-Reduced hunger/increased alertness
Alkaloid - Correct answer-Nicotine - produces physiological effects
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Questions and Answers
1492 - Correct answer-Columbus discovers tobacco in Cuba
Pre-Columbian - Correct answer-Evidence of tobacco use in Patagonia from 7K
years prior
Arawak Indians - Correct answer-Emigrated from SA to Cuba and brought tobacco
seeds with them
Tainos - Correct answer-Descendants of Arawaks -- showed Spaniards the
growing/processing of tobacco
1518 - Correct answer-Hernan Cortez brings seeds back to King Charles V
1520 - Correct answer-Spanish settlers in Cuba cultivate tobacco for personal use
1602 - Correct answer-Pipe smoking reaches Europe, China, India, and Japan
1612 - Correct answer-Jamestown settlers cultivate tobacco
- John Rolfe first to grow tobacco commercially for export
1676 - Correct answer-the "Cigar" is born in Sevilla Spain
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, 1700s - Correct answer-Cigar factories sprout up all across Europe
1817 - Correct answer-King Ferdinand VII made the production/sale of tobacco a
legal endeavor in Cuba
-Cigar production had been illegal for taxation and control purposes
1827 - Correct answer-Don Jaime Partagas establishes Flor de Tobacos Partages y
Compania
1830s - Correct answer-Beginning of cigar bands
1850 - Correct answer-Dutch merchants Gustave Bock marks his cigars with a
paper band
1920s - Correct answer-Cigar rolling machine is introduced in America
1959 - Correct answer-Cuban Revolution instigates an exodus of Cuban cigar
makers to Canary islands, DR, Central America, and US
Indian Medicinal Use of Tobacco for: - Correct answer--Religious purposes
-Healing open wounds
-Toothaches and headaches
-Reduced hunger/increased alertness
Alkaloid - Correct answer-Nicotine - produces physiological effects
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