Methods of smoking and using tobacco evolved as a by-product of cultures and geographic areas which produced differing tobaccos.

·         Some indigenous Americans smoked “cohiba” (grasses) from “Y” shaped tubes inserted into their noses.

·         1500s: France, England, and Holland begin using snuff and smoking tobacco in pipes.

o        Their colonies in Africa, Asia and North America produced tobacco that was best suited for pipes, and snuff.

o        Snuff is ground up tobacco that is snorted through the nose [and in recent times it is applied orally].

-         Was the most popular form of tobacco used in Europe until the 1800s.

-         1900s emergence of oral snuff, a.k.a.: chew and dip.

·         1500s: Spanish culture took to smoking tobacco wrapped in leaves, like the indigenous people they learned from [in lands Spain colonized].

·         1600s: In 1676 factories in Sevilla, Spain create the cigar as we know it today:  characterized by the use of wrapper, binder, and filler leaves.