Friday, June 8, 2012

Who invented cigarettes


There are couple of possibilities, but it is said that beggars in Spain was the one who invented cigarettes. It was 1614 in Seville Spain who collected scraps of cigars and rolled tobacco up in papers. There were people who used pipes to smoke but the cigarettes that we see today were actually created by the beggars in Spain. The reason why the pipe cigarettes were turned into paper based was that the consumption rate was starting to go high and the cost of tobacco leaves and the cigarette was starting to go high.  It was 1880 that the machine to roll the cigarettes was patented. In England, smoking used with pipes was popular, but as the time goes on and the world became global, the paper based cigarettes became popular.


posted by Mitsu

2 comments:

  1. Hi Mitsu,
    When researching the answers to your research questions, it's important to cite the source of the information you gathered. Otherwise, you're asking us to just take on trust the information you've provided. In this seminar, we're practicing research skills such as finding authoritative sources and properly citing them in MLA style, just like we practiced in class last week.
    Cheers,
    Jodias

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  2. Hello Mitsu.

    I've never really thought about the origin of the cigarette, so I found this entry very interesting. Try citing your information next time to give evidence that your infomation is reliable.
    I also wonder why paper based cigarettes became more popular. Is there some sort of reason why it became like this.

    Ryo K.

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