(World - Thematic) World Of Tobacco, U.S. Dept of Ag.,1971 It's probably hard for modern readers to understand that tobacco wasn't always immediately associated with disease. For generations prior, smoking was something social, very commonly accepted and certainly not considered immediately dangerous. It was just an indigenous plant to the Americas that had been used by some native peoples for medicinal and religious purposes that had exported with colonialism, and became massively popular. Its popularity in Europe and the world set it on course to be a new important crop, and it was picked up for growth around the world. By the mid-1960's some medical studies began to link use of the plant with diseases, but in the early 1970's when this map was made it was still used profusely and clearly being grown around the world. Condition is very good. Image size is approximately 26 x 48 (inches)
