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
Biphasic - CORRECT ANSWER-Nicotine effects mental alertness and physical
relaxation (contradictory effects)
Nicotine protects against: - CORRECT ANSWER--Alzheimers
-Parkinsons
-Tourettes
-ADHD
-Schizophrenia
-Epilepsy
Indigenous American method of use: - CORRECT ANSWER-Smoked "Cohiba"
(grasses) from Y shaped tubes inserted in their nose
1500s: France, England, Holland & Colonies method of use: - CORRECT ANSWER-
Pipe tobacco and Snuff
1900s: emergence of oral... - CORRECT ANSWER-Snuff (chew/Dip)
1500s: Spanish culture method of use: - CORRECT ANSWER-Smoking tobacco
wrapped in leaves
, 1676: Sevilla, Spain created... - CORRECT ANSWER-The cigar characterized by the
use of wrapper, binder, and filler leaves
King James I - Persecution - CORRECT ANSWER-Mutilated and tortured snuff users
and hanged pipe smokers
Monarchs who penalized the use of tobacco: - CORRECT ANSWER-Pope Urban VIII
Czar Michael Fedorovitch Romanov
Shah Abbas I
Sultan Murad IV
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
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
Persecution in Middle East - CORRECT ANSWER-Lips and noses cut off
Rodrigo de Jerez - CORRECT ANSWER-The Spanish Inquisition jailed an early
nicotine addict for 7 years.