snuff

=**The snuff**= Snuff is a nicotine containing product made of ground or pulverised tobacco leaves. It is an example of smokeless tobacco. It originated in the Americas and was in common use in Europe by the 17th century As with most forms of tobacco use, inhalation of snuff comes from America. The first descriptions of this practice consist of the second West Indian voyage of Columbus (1493-1496) and were collected by the religious fray Ramón Pané. Once imported, the product began to be consumed in Europe among the groups more wealthy, because tobacco was then a luxury good. It was during the 18th century when the snuff became a fashion spread between European aristocratic circles. The tobacco of snuff, beautiful and artistically decorated, subject of Museum par excellence, has been linked, as a usual complement, to the image of the 18th century Aristocrat 

The tobacco is an original product of the agriculture of America and accused from the leaves of several plants of the kind Nicotiana tabacum. It is consumed of several forms, being the principal one for combustion producing smoke. His individual contained in nicotine makes her very addictive. It is commercialized legally in the whole world, though in many countries it has numerous restrictions of consumption, for his adverse effects for the public health. His composition includes an alkaloid, the nicotine, which one finds in the leaves in variable proportions (from less 1 % up to 12 %). When these leaves are processed to produce cigarettes are added chemical substances that can be harmful for the health. [Needed appointment]  The kind Nicotiana includes more than 50 species classified under four principal groups: N. tabacum, N. petunoides, N. rustic and N. polidiclia. The species N. tabacum, it is possible to classify under four variedades:havanesis, brasilensis, virgínica and purple, that are the origin of the different varieties used in the commercialization.



 The snuff was used by the Mayans for religious rituals and celebrations, was known by Westerners in 1492 on the occasion of the arrival of Columbus and his expedition. Other versions taken from Spanish chroniclers suggested that " snuff"comes from the teaching of Spanish from where the plant was discovered, either Tobago , a Caribbean island or the Mexican city of Tabasco. However, the most plausible is that it comes from the Arabic " tabbaq ' , name applied in Europe since at least the fifteenth century a number of medicinal plants . The variety known as Cikar Maya ( smoking), spread across the continent through trade . Rodrigo de Jerez and Luis de la Torre , companions of Christopher Columbus, were the first westerners to know their existence . Rodrigo , on his return to Spain , was imprisoned by the Inquisition, accused of witchcraft, as only the Devil could give a man the power to remove smoke from his mouth.

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