A very short (2 page) article on the worldwide spread of tobacco use: Taking to Tobacco [pdf 0.4 MB]
Spoiler Alert: The doctor did it!
Bob
Spoiler Alert: The doctor did it!
The Lancet is among the world's most renowned medical journals.Withington P: Taking to Tobacco. The Lancet.com 21 JUL 2018 said:...moving back to circa 1618, scholars have identified western medicine and its practitioners as one of the main reasons why Europeans ever even contemplated indulging in the new and very strange behaviour of setting a herb on fire and inhaling the smoke into the body in the first place.
...an agent that warmed and dried the body and acted as a purgative within and balm without, it was suited to treat ailments as diverse as toothache and cancer.
Bob