1. Tobacco exchange is our tradition in India
Who says so?????…

2. Giving Tobacco is tradition of India
Tobacco is not an Indian Crop; It came to India in the 16th Century
Tobacco use began after Europeans, especially British, Spanish and Portuguese explorers, came in contact with the inhabitants of the American continent.

3. Giving Tobacco is tradition of India
A few events close in time on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean combined to lead to a tremendous increase in cigarette smoking in the world. Indeed, the tobacco epidemic, as we know it globally, has become a cigarette epidemic.
The development of cheap and mild tasting, flue-cured “bright” tobacco began in North Carolina in 1839, and a good market had emerged for it in Virginia and North Carolina by 1860.
Cigarettes were already being sold in England by Philip Morris since the opening of a shop in London in 1847.

4. Giving Tobacco is tradition of India
The return of the British soldiers in from the Crimean war, during which they had learnt to smoke Turkish cigarettes, shared with them by their Turkish allies, boosted the sale of cigarettes in England.
During the Civil War (1860–1865), soldiers of both the North and South received tobacco as rations, and on returning home, they spread the demand for bright tobacco in the northern region as well.
The hand-rolling method used in cigarette factories was replaced by cigarette-rolling machines, which were developed and adopted in the early 1880s, permitting large-scale production at a lower cost.

5. Giving Tobacco is tradition of India
In the 1880s, representatives of tobacco companies travelled abroad to market cigarettes, mainly in areas already opened to trade by the British, such as Australia, Canada, South Africa, China, Japan and India
And in the early 1900s, also in Argentina and Brazil. With the demand soaring, cigarette manufacturers soon set up factories in most of these areas.
During the first half of the twentieth century, the increase in cigarette use by young adults was mainly among men in the developed countries, but in the second half, there was an increase in use by women in the developed countries and men in the developing countries.