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American Indians were first to use tobacco
Monday, September 29, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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When did people start smoking tobacco?
Tobacco was smoked in the Americas long before its organized cultivation began somewhere around 5000 to 3000 BC. Tobacco use was ceremonial and ritualistic for the natives with the leaf not only being smoked, but also chewed, drunk, taken as snuff and even given as enema. Tobacco was considered as a means of communicating with the supernatural world and was
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