Tobacco Effects On The American Indians

The history of tobacco shows nothing but the positives but tobacco is actually harmful and potentially deadly. Tobacco was discovered by the American Indians and believed tobacco to be more than it actually was. It was used in many ways and all of them was thought to be totally positive effects, not knowing how harmful it really was. They had no idea that tobacco caused lung disease, buerger's diseases and was also highly addictive. It was not until now that the world started to realize the major negative effects it has on the human body. It's so bad that the government had to step in and make laws like ,you have to be 21 and over to smoke, no smoking in public places and no more advertising it to keep people safe from its harmful effects.
The American Indians used tobacco for many different ways, such as medical and religious practices. They believed that it was a cure for all thing and used it for dressing wounds ,as well as a pain killer. When Christopher Columbus came to the new world the American Indians offered him dry tobacco as a gift. That was the first time anyone besides the Indians have seen tobacco.The sailors brought it back to Europe and started growing it on their own. That's how Tobacco started spreading all over Europe. In 1588, Thomas Harriet ,a Virginian, was the first to start promoting smoking tobacco and that how the world got exposed to smoking tobacco. By 1600s the whole world was exposed to tobacco and it was every popular. It was so popular that it was often used as money. It became this popular mainly because it had many