It is generally agreed that the use of tobacco in Europe, as a means of
inebriation, originated in the introduction of the leaves of the plant into
Spain from America. Domingo, called Tabaca. This is much more likely foundation
for the name of the herb than that adopted by some, who assert that it
originated in tabac, a tube used by the natives for smoking. That there was no
particular aptitude in the European taste for the use of this herb
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very slow progress, which ensued even of the knowledge of its qualities
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1560, when Jean Nicot, the French ambassador at the court of Portugal reported
of it to his sovereign, scarcely any thing was known of the foreign vegetable,
and in place of the men who accompanied Columbus having taken to any imitation
of the Cuban-natives when they returned to Europe, it would rather seem that the
adoption of the pipe is attributable to an Englishman, Raphelengi, who, having
accustomed himself to it in Virginia, introduced the practice into England. Sir
Walter Raleigh does not seem to have used the pipe until after the return of Sir
Francis Drake in 1586, so that nearly a hundred years expired before even the
roots of the habit were fixed in the English people. Nor, probably, would the
practice after this have spread as rapidly as it did, if it had not been for the
persecution to which it was almost immediately exposed. If it is true, as has
been said, that a few opposing volumes will fix the roots of a heresy, we need
scarcely wonder at the triumph of tobacco, against the use of which more than a
hundred fulminating volumes issued from the press within a few years. These
observations suggest a reference to the question, how far tobacco was intended
for the use of man? The practice of the Cuban savages is seized by one party as
a proof of a final cause, insomuch as savages are supposed to follow the first
dictates of nature; and then comes the other party, who point to the tardy
adoption of nature's gift by a civilized people as a clear proof that the weed
was not intended for the uses to which it is applied. It is utterly vain to
discuss questions of this kind. We have no elements for a proper judgment.
Perhaps, for aught we know, the American savages were some thousands of years in
coming to the habit-at least we have no reason to suppose that it could be a
very primitive adoption. Whether, indeed, man's custom, in most cases, is a
proof of itself of nature's intention, must always be a puzzle; but as we know
that many very bad things are greatly more natural to human beings than we would
wish them to be, we have just as good a right to say for those to whom good
tendencies are delightful from the beginning, that nature intended they should
do their best to eradicate what is hurtful, and reclaim their fellow creatures
from the indulgences of vice. The true practical question must, in short, always
be what is beneficial and what is hurtful, according to the results of our
experience. The botany of our subject presents us with seven or eight different
species of the plant, all affecting, more or less, the warm latitudes. Virginia
seems, of all regions, the best suited to its culture, and yields in great
quantity the common or Virginian tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum). A more hardy kind
(N. rustica,) may be cultivated in such latitudes as that of Scotland. This is
the species, which has been found in Europe, Asia, and Africa; and were it not
for the restriction imposed by statute, we would produce it on rich soils in
greater quantities than would be convenient for our treasury, or beneficial to
our people. It need not be said that the question of intention, on the part of
nature, is not much helped by the habitat of the production used; otherwise we
might expect to find the northern races less addicted to the use of this
tropical weed than those of the warmer regions. We know that probably the
contrary is the truth; but all our efforts to draw any conclusion for or against
the adaptation of a race to a production of a climate, are rendered futile by
the teachings, not more of our religion, than of naturalists, who insist for a
central point of origin for all races, and a constitution suited to all
climates. The safest position to hold is that a bad habit may be formed in any
latitude, and supported by any number of arguments, where the wish still holds
its mysterious power over the conclusions of what we call reason. As regards the
composition of tobacco, we have endless experiments in that nearly new science,
Organic Chemistry, which seems to try the patience of industry itself. There are
some nine or ten different substances, which go to the formation of a tobacco
leaf, and these seem to change in their proportions according to the condition
of the plant. Setting aside starch, various acids, and salts, we come to what
may be termed the essential element or principle called Nicotina. These
proportions of carbon, hydrogen, and azotes, really tell to the analyst nothing
from which he could predicate any thing certain as to the character of the
compound. In this respect, all the formula of organic substances is nearly under
the same mystery, a small difference in the proportions producing the greatest
difference in the combined results
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under no mistake as to the character of the element which is called Nicotina-a
colorless liquid alkaloid, with an acrid, burning taste. It is one of the most
intense of all poisons, approaching in ita activity the strongest preparation of
prussic acid. The other important element procured from the analysis of tobacco,
is an oil called nicotianin, supposed to be "the juice of cursed hebanon"
referred to in Hamlet. As this oily substance is also a very intense poison,
differing essentially from the alkaloid, and indeed it is supposed to be capable
of acting on different vital organs. We have thus in tobacco two poisons-rather
a remarkable fact in organic chemistry, where we find, generally, only one very
active principle at the base of any particular production in the vegetable
kingdom
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asserted by Landerer, that there is none of this deadly oil in the fresh leaves
of tobacco; and Mr. Pereira remarks, that the substance must be developed in the
drying of the leaves under the influence of air and water. The discovery; if
true; may free the weed from the charge of possessing a double poison; but the
consequence is all the same to the foreign consumer; who never sees the leaf in
its green state. It has been said that the smoke of tobacco, as analyzed by
Zeise and others, contains nothing of the deadly alkaloid; and tobacco smokers
have pleaded for less detrimental effects from the pipe or cigar than from the
quid, but I fear their conclusion is not very tenable; for the detrimental oil,
as we in fact see from the pipe itself, is largely increased by the continued
roasting and burning. We know; too, that the old pipe is a favorite with the
epicures; the more oil by which it is blackened the better becomes the
instrument; till it attains perfection as a mass of clay soaked with poison; and
dried, and soaked and dried a hundred times; so that the entire matter is imbued
with the absorption. Accompanying these effects are often nausea
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a peculiar feeling, usually described as giddiness
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with the ordinary acceptation of this form. As dropsical swellings sometimes
disappear under the operation of these doses, it has been inferred that the
remedy promotes the operation of the absorbents. It occasionally acts as an
anodyne, or more rarely promotes sleep.
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