CRT - Tobacco University Exam Questions and Answers Latest Update 2025/2026
1492 - Answers Columbus discovers tobacco in Cuba
Pre-Columbian - Answers Evidence of tobacco use in Patagonia from 7K years prior
Arawak Indians - Answers Emigrated from SA to Cuba and brought tobacco seeds with them
Tainos - Answers Descendants of Arawaks -- showed Spaniards the growing/processing of
tobacco
1518 - Answers Hernan Cortez brings seeds back to King Charles V
1520 - Answers Spanish settlers in Cuba cultivate tobacco for personal use
1602 - Answers Pipe smoking reaches Europe, China, India, and Japan
1612 - Answers Jamestown settlers cultivate tobacco
- John Rolfe first to grow tobacco commercially for export
1676 - Answers the "Cigar" is born in Sevilla Spain
1700s - Answers Cigar factories sprout up all across Europe
1817 - Answers King Ferdinand VII made the production/sale of tobacco a legal endeavor in
Cuba
-Cigar production had been illegal for taxation and control purposes
1827 - Answers Don Jaime Partagas establishes Flor de Tobacos Partages y Compania
1830s - Answers Beginning of cigar bands
1850 - Answers Dutch merchants Gustave Bock marks his cigars with a paper band
1920s - Answers Cigar rolling machine is introduced in America
1959 - Answers Cuban Revolution instigates an exodus of Cuban cigar makers to Canary islands,
DR, Central America, and US
Indian Medicinal Use of Tobacco for: - Answers -Religious purposes
-Healing open wounds
-Toothaches and headaches
-Reduced hunger/increased alertness
Alkaloid - Answers Nicotine - produces physiological effects
, Biphasic - Answers Nicotine effects mental alertness and physical relaxation (contradictory
effects)
Nicotine protects against: - Answers -Alzheimers
-Parkinsons
-Tourettes
-ADHD
-Schizophrenia
-Epilepsy
Indigenous American method of use: - Answers Smoked "Cohiba" (grasses) from Y shaped
tubes inserted in their nose
1500s: France, England, Holland & Colonies method of use: - Answers Pipe tobacco and Snuff
1900s: emergence of oral... - Answers Snuff (chew/Dip)
1500s: Spanish culture method of use: - Answers Smoking tobacco wrapped in leaves
1676: Sevilla, Spain created... - Answers The cigar characterized by the use of wrapper, binder,
and filler leaves
King James I - Persecution - Answers Mutilated and tortured snuff users and hanged pipe
smokers
Monarchs who penalized the use of tobacco: - Answers Pope Urban VIII
Czar Michael Fedorovitch Romanov
Shah Abbas I
Sultan Murad IV
Persecution in Middle East - Answers Lips and noses cut off
Rodrigo de Jerez - Answers The Spanish Inquisition jailed an early nicotine addict for 7 years.
1629: Taxation - Answers France's Cardinal Richelieu taxed thirty sols per pound of tobacco.
Spread across Europe before end of 17th century
1700s - Europe Growth - Answers Cigar factories opened in Rome, France, and Germany
1717 - Answers King Felipe V of Spain organizes a monopoly on tobacco in Cuba. Forced to
grow for Spain
1492 - Answers Columbus discovers tobacco in Cuba
Pre-Columbian - Answers Evidence of tobacco use in Patagonia from 7K years prior
Arawak Indians - Answers Emigrated from SA to Cuba and brought tobacco seeds with them
Tainos - Answers Descendants of Arawaks -- showed Spaniards the growing/processing of
tobacco
1518 - Answers Hernan Cortez brings seeds back to King Charles V
1520 - Answers Spanish settlers in Cuba cultivate tobacco for personal use
1602 - Answers Pipe smoking reaches Europe, China, India, and Japan
1612 - Answers Jamestown settlers cultivate tobacco
- John Rolfe first to grow tobacco commercially for export
1676 - Answers the "Cigar" is born in Sevilla Spain
1700s - Answers Cigar factories sprout up all across Europe
1817 - Answers King Ferdinand VII made the production/sale of tobacco a legal endeavor in
Cuba
-Cigar production had been illegal for taxation and control purposes
1827 - Answers Don Jaime Partagas establishes Flor de Tobacos Partages y Compania
1830s - Answers Beginning of cigar bands
1850 - Answers Dutch merchants Gustave Bock marks his cigars with a paper band
1920s - Answers Cigar rolling machine is introduced in America
1959 - Answers Cuban Revolution instigates an exodus of Cuban cigar makers to Canary islands,
DR, Central America, and US
Indian Medicinal Use of Tobacco for: - Answers -Religious purposes
-Healing open wounds
-Toothaches and headaches
-Reduced hunger/increased alertness
Alkaloid - Answers Nicotine - produces physiological effects
, Biphasic - Answers Nicotine effects mental alertness and physical relaxation (contradictory
effects)
Nicotine protects against: - Answers -Alzheimers
-Parkinsons
-Tourettes
-ADHD
-Schizophrenia
-Epilepsy
Indigenous American method of use: - Answers Smoked "Cohiba" (grasses) from Y shaped
tubes inserted in their nose
1500s: France, England, Holland & Colonies method of use: - Answers Pipe tobacco and Snuff
1900s: emergence of oral... - Answers Snuff (chew/Dip)
1500s: Spanish culture method of use: - Answers Smoking tobacco wrapped in leaves
1676: Sevilla, Spain created... - Answers The cigar characterized by the use of wrapper, binder,
and filler leaves
King James I - Persecution - Answers Mutilated and tortured snuff users and hanged pipe
smokers
Monarchs who penalized the use of tobacco: - Answers Pope Urban VIII
Czar Michael Fedorovitch Romanov
Shah Abbas I
Sultan Murad IV
Persecution in Middle East - Answers Lips and noses cut off
Rodrigo de Jerez - Answers The Spanish Inquisition jailed an early nicotine addict for 7 years.
1629: Taxation - Answers France's Cardinal Richelieu taxed thirty sols per pound of tobacco.
Spread across Europe before end of 17th century
1700s - Europe Growth - Answers Cigar factories opened in Rome, France, and Germany
1717 - Answers King Felipe V of Spain organizes a monopoly on tobacco in Cuba. Forced to
grow for Spain
