Excerpt from Tobacco, Its Influences, Physical, Moral, and Religious: A Lecture Delivered at the Atheneum, Carlisle, on Thursday Evening, October 27th, 1859Tobacco was unknown in Europe until Columbus, in 1492, first beheld, in Cuba, the custom of smoking cigars. Some years after a Spanish Monk discovered the plant in a province of St. Domingo, called Tabacca, which, according to some, appears the most probable origin of the name. It was not u...
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