Tobacco
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[edit] Tobacco in Crosstime Traffic
Tobacco was seen as one of the most disgusting of vices by the mid-21 century in the home timeline. However, smoking was quite common in other alternates.
[edit] Tobacco in The Gladiator
Tobacco had long been recognized posing a threat to people's health. However, even the most authoritarian government could not keep the people from smoking it.
[edit] Tobacco in The Disunited States of America
Tobacco was an important cash crop to the states (countries) in the south-east of North America. The states further west tended to frown on its usage.
[edit] Tobacco in Every Inch a King
Tobacco was smoked through pipes and cigars throughout the world. In some cultures, however, certain methods of smoking tobacco carried an effeminate connotation, such as cigar-smoking in Shqiperi.
[edit] Tobacco in Ruled Britannia
Tobacco was introduced to Europe from the New World by Spanish explorers and colonists. It was smoked in pipes and was popular among both Spaniards and Englishmen. Both Lope de Vega and Christopher Marlowe#Christopher Marlowe were very fond of tobacco; Marlowe once blasphemously commented that the Catholic sacrament of the Eucharist could be improved if tobacco replaced the bread and wine as its physical medium. However, William Shakespeare found it disgusting.
[edit] Tobacco in Southern Victory
Tobacco is grown both in the US and CS, though Confederate tobacco is widely considered to be of far superior quality. It is most commonly made into cigarettes. Tobacco use is popular throughout the North American continent but is religiously proscribed by the Mormons.
[edit] Tobacco in Worldwar
Tobacco use was common the world over when the Race's Conquest Fleet arrived on Earth in 1942. The ensuing war disrupted tobacco supplies all over the world, and tobacco products (the most popular of these being cigarettes) were regularly available only in areas where tobacco was grown.
After the war, tobacco supplies returned to normal both in independent human powers and in the Race's colonies, and world tobacco consumption returned to prewar levels. The Race's doctors determined that tobacco was carcinogeninc, but this only slightly diminished the plant's popularity, mainly among human medical professionals. This much perplexed the Race, whose most popular recreational drug, ginger, had no such deleterious health effects.
[edit] Tobacco in Atlantis
Pipeweed was native to northern Terranova. When Europeans arrived there, they brought the plant back with them. They also cultivated it in Atlantis. Pipeweed soon became an important staple of French and Spanish Atlantis.
[edit] Tobacco in The Opening of the World Series
Tobacco was grown in lands south of the Raumsdalian Empire and carried north into imperial territory by traders from that region. Among Raumsdalians, smoking tobacco through pipes and in cigar form enjoyed moderate popularity. The weed never established itself north to Bizogot territory, though a few Bizogots who travelled extensively in the Empire developed a taste for it, and the occasional Raumsdalian trader would carry some on northern sojourns.
