Tobacco is an
agricultural product processed from the fresh
leaves of plants in the genus
Nicotiana.Tobacco has been growing on the American Continent since about 6000 BC and began being used by native cultures at about 3000 BC. It has been smoked in one form or another since about 2000 BC. There are pictoral drawings of ancient Mayans smoking crude cigars from 1400 BC. Tobacco has a very long history of use in
Native American culture and played an important part in the foundation of the
United States of America, going back to
colonial times and the original Jamestown settlement.
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