TOBACCO FACTS AND FANCIES 



TOBACCO FIRST NOTICED 



ACCORDING to Notes and Queries, the 

 earliest notice of tobacco is contained in 

 a work of Benzo, of Milan, printed in 

 1578: "The natives bind the ripe leaves 

 into bundles and hang them to dry. When 

 they desire to use them, they entwine one 

 leaf of the plant with one leaf of the corn 

 grown in the country, so as to make of 

 them one tube or pipe, lighting one end 

 of which, they put the other in their mouth, 

 and draw in the breath and air, and at last 

 inhale so much of the smoke as to fill their 

 mouths, throats, and heads, and patiently 



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