Who was the idiot that invented cigarettes?
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a very rich man probably
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The native Americans....Well they were some of the first to smoke Tobacco anyways.
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Correctly me if I'm wrong but wasn't just made up by some Indian and has used it ever since? There wasn't even a "creater" I don't think.
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No one could be said to have actually invented the cigarette. Thin reeds filled with tobacco had been seen by the Spanish in Yucatan as early as 1518. The "cigarette" began as a kind of cigar. Cigars were made in Spain, by hand, and were very expensive. The story goes that the beggars of the Spanish city Seville used to collect up the cigar butts thrown into the street, shred the tobacco from them and roll it into paper, which they smoked. They called these concoctions cigarillos: 'poor man's smokes'. The idea of smoking tobacco rolled in a piece of paper spread slowly through eighteenth century Europe until it reached France. Here the new smokes were given the name 'cigarettes'. There were several reasons for their popularity; they were cheaper than cigars, less trouble than a pipe, and more fashionable than snuff. A man would carry his own tobacco and a booklet of paper from which he would form his own cigarettes. In 1854 an English Tobacco Merchant called Philip Morris began producing handrolled cigarettes. Large scale production began in 1881 when the cigarette making machine was invented.
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The Euopean American industrialist who found a great way to capitalize Chief Smokum paper peacepipe's idea.
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it was the first cash crop in the u.s.a.even before cotton.no one knows who invented cigarettes but he was no idiot,you FOOL.
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This is an interesting question! I'm not sure who invented them but someone asked a question months ago about who invented the cigarette. I searched for it but couldn't find it. My answer was>>> An idiot. I was downrated! LOL
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Sorry, I can't say anything, still LMAO at your question.
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The cigar was smoked by indians for hundreds of years. A Irishman, named Donald O'Rette, used a folded sheet of newspaper to store his tobacco that he smoked in a pipe. His pipe was broken in a fight on a flatboat floating on the Ohio River. Desperate for a smoke, Rette rolled some tobacco in small piece of newsprint. Hence the Cigar-Rette.
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i don't really know who that <B>idiot</B> is but whoever he/she is, aaaaahrg! i freakin' hate him/her! i can't stop my parents from smoking! and im really worried... :S
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I don't know but I wish it had never happened. I smoke them every day, all the while hating them. Terrible habit. If you haven't started, DON'T!
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Some rich billionaire; what an idiot... :-)
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Please do not call me an idiot. I am very rich but very old. I don't think you understand how awesome cigarettes are, young lass... perhaps you should try one?
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Someone who wanted to kill themselves slowly and painfully.
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Indians and they got what they deserved.
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heres an interseting link on the subject! http://www.cigarettes-below-cost.com/history_of_cigarettes.html
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Walter Raleigh brought Tobacco back to England as a party of his cargo for Elizabeth 1st. Native Americans smoked cigarettes in the 16th Century. That is the first record of Cigarettes.
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