Shennong tasted a hundred herbs ... and died on the broken grass! Du Kang invented wine ... it hurts your health! Then who knows who invented cigarettes?

It should be said that before Columbus arrived in Central and South America, he found that there were so many people smoking grass, which was by no means a custom that could be formed overnight. It took several years for this "scale" to appear. Just as Shennong discovered tea after tasting a hundred herbs, and after centuries of trial planting, processing and dissemination, it became a dietary fashion and was accepted by consumers, the origin of tobacco must have been earlier than 1492.

That's what happened. Take Central and South America, where Columbus discovered tobacco, for example, the origin of tobacco was about several centuries or even more than ten centuries before Columbus discovered it.

In this regard, there are not only many arguments, but also many materials that can be verified. Here are just a few examples.

One: Archaeologists found in Palo City, northern Arizona that in the cave where Indians lived in 650 AD, there were wide tobacco leaves and pipes side by side, as well as residual soot. These residues, analyzed by color plate and spectrophotometer, contain nicotine, and are inferred to be leaves of n.dttenudta.

Second: Archaeologists also found a relief on the thin relief of a temple built in 432 AD in palenque, Chiapas, Mexico, showing a Mayan priest smoking through a tubular pipe during the ceremony. In addition, there are many accounts in related writings.

In the book "Tobacco Production" written by American tobacco expert W.W.ogarner, 1946, he mentioned that when 1492 discovered tobacco in the New World, he saw local Indians smoking tobacco products, and talked about many styles of stone pipes found in the ancient tombs of American Indians, some of which were like birds.

In the book "Principles of Flue-cured Tobacco" written by American S.N. Hawkes in 1978, when talking about the origin of tobacco, he said: "In BC, tobacco was planted in Central and South America. In Palenque, Mexico, there is a photo of an old man smoking, which is engraved in the small church in this place. Tobacco and Americans, written by American Rober-RTK. Hel-Mann in 1962 contains many descriptions of tobacco, records of unearthed cultural relics and pictures of tobacco products used in ancient India. He also affirmed that tobacco originated in Central and South America, and described that in the 5th century A.D., among the cultural relics unearthed in Mexico, Chile and other countries, there were various smoking tools, some of which were engraved with beautiful patterns on pipes, and some were engraved with human shapes. Wolf's book "Aromatic Smoke" also records: "In 432 AD, Chlapas, Mexico, had a picture of a Mayan priest smoking with a pipe, which was decorated on the cross of the auditorium, indicating that the smoke emitted by this pipe could be blown to any corner of the earth. "This also shows that Mexico has a long history of planting and applying tobacco, which may be one of the regions of origin.

Textual research on the origin of agronomy plants was written by A. de-Candolle in 1882 (translated into Chinese). When studying the origin of tobacco, the book once said: when Europeans discovered America, smoking, snuff and chewing tobacco had spread all over the New World ... Judging from its situation, it has a long history and is now in Azz, Mexico. Some foreign scholars even affirmed that the origin of tobacco was in Central and South America, denied that the origin of tobacco was in the old world and denied that it was in China. For example, the book Textual Research on Agronomy Plants says: "Botanists think that tobacco originated in the Old World, which is really a big fallacy. At this time ..." In addition, 1926 German Wagler wrote China Ancient Agricultural Books and Translation into Chinese. In his discussion about the history of tobacco, he talked about the tobacco production in China in the first half of the17th century.

As can be seen from the above, tobacco appeared in Central and South America around the 5th century, instead of15th century.