ABSTRACT
Tobacco became increasingly diversified and commercialized during the 19th century, a process that culminated in it becoming incorporated by the formation of companies that were to become increasingly global tobacco corporations. This chapter tracks the paths taken by cigars, chewing, and pipe tobacco from their technological progenitor to the rise of the tobacco corporations. They index an era of diversification in their own right, but other major changes were afoot in the realm of tobacco paraphernalia and the development of brands that had profound implications for the commercialization of tobacco in the 19th century. With some notable exceptions, tobacco assumed powerful bonds in male political, scientific, literary and artistic circles across 19th century Europe. Tobacco speaks again in Chambers’ Journal, as a cigar who explains to its readers the distinguishing characteristics of tobaccos around the world.
