American Tobacco and European consumers

American Tobacco and European consumers

“Europeans’ desire for tobacco was the only reason it had commercial value”. During the seventeenth century in the English colonies in the Chesapeake were built out of the resource of tobacco. The settlers made so much of it that they sold it to England by the pounds more like forty million pounds.
That was there main trade among the English country, so much so that people made a habit of smoking tobacco when it was being transported in by the millions. It also jump started a new form of industry in the European culture. Smoking was so common that they had to have some kind of way making pipes for the users , and boxes to old there tobacco that opened new jobs for people and altered there culture even in the social aspect of it. Some people didn’t approve of tobacco and what it did to the human body for instant King James describes it as “filthy smoke “the “stinking suffumigation “he believed that it was a disgusting habit and that it should not be promoted among the people.

Then in the eighteenth Century many tobacco users switched to snuff which became very common in that time. Snuff made it so they didn’t have to spit or use fire they just took it out of a box and sniffed it where ever they were. The Europeans also thought if you sneezed after wards that it was “not only fashionable but healthful”. By producing tobacco in such a large quantity it changed European culture and pushed them to a new level of civilization.