History of tobacco brought to Spain for its flowers, but "Now we use it to a greater extent for the sake of its virtues than for its beauty". John Hawkins was the first to bring tobacco seeds to England. William Harrison's "English Chronology" mentions tobacco smoking in the country as of 1573, before Sir Walter Raleigh brought the first "Virginia" tobacco to Europe from the Roanoke Colony, referring to it as "tobah" as early as 1578. In 1595 Anthony Chute published "Tabaco", which repeated earlier arguments about the benefits of the plant and emphasised the health-giving properties of pipe-smoking. The importation of tobacco
Scandinavian Tobacco Group The company retained its cigar, pipe tobacco, rolling tobacco, and tobacco bits businesses. In December 2008, the decision was made to change the company's name to Scandinavian Tobacco Group. On 26 April 2010, an agreement was signed to form a new company by combining all the tobacco business of Scandinavian Tobacco Group AB with the cigars and pipe tobacco business of Swedish Match AB (SM) (with the exception of its US mass market cigars). Following its establishment in 2010, the group acquired Lane Limited, a producer and brand owner of pipe tobacco, fine-cut tobacco and machine-made cigars in the United