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> > Among all indigenous people of the Americas tobacco was considered one 
> > of the most holy of plants. 

The native Americans used and cultivated 'nicotiana rustica' but modern 
commercial tobacco is 'nicotiana tabacum' and that has been genetically 
selected 
for centuries to make it into really nasty stuff.  It isn't a continuous 
history.
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