The Columbian exchange was the global transfer of goods, animals, and plants during the colonization of the Americas. Ships from the Americas brought many items the Europeans, Asians and Africans had never seen before, and viceversa.
Roll the cigarette. First, tuck the edge of the paper into the tobacco crease. Apply more pressure with your thumbs, and roll your middle fingers upward. Complete the first rotation: wrap the paper all the way around the tobacco, in the shape of a cigarette, without creasing the bottom of the paper.
A small team in Durham, North Carolina, hand-rolled the Duke of Durham cigarettes, twisting the ends to seal them. Two years later Duke saw an opportunity. He began working with a young mechanic called James Bonsack, who said he could mechanise cigarette manufacturing.