שאלה | Question: Mark the correct statement regarding tobacco.

Question: Mark the correct statement regarding tobacco.

שאלה #193583

		A) Tobacco was spread around the world beginning in the Middle Ages.
		B) It was invented in China.
		C) It was quickly adopted around the world; it was also a popular intoxicant and a widely used drug.
		D) It was adopted in the East only in the 20th century.

Explanation: The lectures frame tobacco as a rapidly globalizing commodity after its introduction, becoming embedded in everyday sociability and widely consumed across regions. It is treated not only as a commodity but also as an “intoxicant” in contemporary moral and medical debates about altered states and bodily effects. (Reading: Grehan, Smoking and sociability in the Ottoman Empire). Grehan_Smoking and sociability in the Ottoman Empire Quote: “casting tobacco as an intoxicant and equating it with wine…” (Grehan, Smoking and sociability in the Ottoman Empire).