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Starting in 1996 I gleaned the web, newspaper articles, magazines, pictures, etc. which I wanted to keep and along with some original content add the things I'm interested in and I hope you are too. I come from Missouri originally and operate this site from Oklahoma. I have a construction background, but since the stroke I do this Web Site. The Contact Us, The Small Print, and a Link Exchange are located on the contact page.

When R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (R.J. Reynolds) was founded in the late 1800s, the tobacco industry already enjoyed a rich heritage, much of which was associated with the discovery and development of America. The first European to smoke tobacco was said to be a sailor who traveled with Columbus to the New World in 1492. Early explorers were intrigued by the aromatic dried leaves so highly valued by Native Americans.

Regular leaf trade from the Americas did not begin until the late 1500s. About the same time, Sir Walter Raleigh popularized pipe smoking at the English Court. In the 1600s, the first taxes were levied on the sale and use of tobacco, filling the coffers of England's King James I. Later, expansion of the European market would prove vital to the economic survival of the original American colonies.

Revenues from the tobacco trade essentially formed the foundation of the U.S. economy in its early years. During the 19th century, use of chewing tobaccos, and later smoking tobaccos, would become widely popular in the United States. In the late 1800s, demand for tobacco products in the United States was rising with the nation's rapidly expanding population. In fact, consumption of the most popular forms of manufactured tobacco – chewing, smoking and snuff – tripled between 1880 and 1910.

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