The growth is dated back as far as about 6000 B.C by the Americans. The following are some of the ways in which the drug was used long ago:

• Tobacco was believed to cure almost all diseases and was used in dressing of wounds and the relieving of pain.
• Chewing of the plant was believed to cure toothaches
• Soldiers also used tobacco in First World War to escape from the horrors of the war. Cigarettes were therefore given the name ‘soldier’s smoke.
• Romans believed that the drug could cure 36 health problems.