As early as 530 years ago, the Age of Discovery in the West came.
The famous Italian explorer Columbus led his fleet to the East Indies.
The crew found that the local indigenous people Indians used a long-tubed tool to suck an unknown dry leaf, put the other end in their mouths, inhaled, and then exhaled the smoke from their mouths or noses. The Indians smoked tobacco
and the grass was quickly brought back to Europe by the crew and spread to the people at the bottom of society. The increasing demand made people quickly smell the business opportunities of tobacco. A new era of tobacco business began in Europe, and the indigenous Indians Man became the originator of tobacco smoking.
In less than a century, the Spaniards began to be sold in the Asian colonies the Philippines.
Tobacco has become the darling of local money makers. Three years later, during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, tobacco was introduced from the Philippines to my country through the cooperation between sailors and businessmen in Fujian, and smoking began to spread throughout the country.
In order to curb smoking, the Ming and Qing dynasties implemented a large-scale ban on smoking. The Qing government was even more stringent. The law clearly stipulated: "All civil and military officials and smokers will be dismissed from their posts, and they will be whipped 100 times and put in shackles for 2 months; ordinary people who smoke will be punished with 40 big boards and exiled 3,000 people." Land".
Tobacco business has been in business for less than 300 years. Frenchman Durand invented the world's first "automatic cigarette rolling machine", which can produce up to 30 cigarettes per minute. The invention of the automatic cigarette rolling machine once again gave businessmen in Western countries a taste of tobacco capital. profit.
Various regions are stepping up the construction of cigarette factories, and an era of "modern commercial cigarettes" with upgraded and exquisite appearance has arrived, which are then sold overseas and introduced to China. Due to the high price of imported cigarettes, the consumer group was limited to celebrities and children of wealthy families. This is why people at that time regarded smoking as a "status symbol."
In order to reject the sky-high price of overseas cigarettes and to prevent Chinese people from following the trend and getting addicted to cigarettes, China quickly built China's first cigarette factory in Northeast China in 1902 called "Harbin Cigarette Factory ".
Until 1982, the early days of reform and opening up, China Tobacco Corporation was established; in 1983, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration was formally established.
However, 30 years ago, scientific research proved that smoking is harmful to health, and the U.S. government soon launched a protracted anti-smoking campaign. Scientists claim that tobacco contains toxic nicotine (commonly known as "nicotine") and is also addictive. It was not until the world entered the second millennium that it was included in the ranks of drugs by all countries in the world.
Since then, the world tobacco war and the world smoke-free movement have been launched. This is the past and present of the tobacco industry. Tobacco is an evil that many people find difficult to get rid of!
Big data shows that there are currently 1.1 billion smokers in the world. What a huge number this is! We appeal that for the benefit of all mankind, please cherish life and stay away from cigarettes.
