The custom of tobacco snuffing started with the Snuff bottle originated from Indian. In the 14th century, Italian began to produce snuff for sales with choice tobacco leaves mixed with certain medicines.
The Chinese people began to take snuff at Ming Dynasty, started from Guangdong area at the beginning. Seldom imported. From Kangxi Period, the Western missionaries came to China with big amount of snuff and glass bottles. It gradually became a fashion of taking snuff. Portugal, then the U.K., French and other countries began to present snuff and glass snuff bottles to China. The Emperor Qianlong gave his senior officials snuffs as awards. Taking snuff became a social fashion then.
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