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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] tobacco and pipes
  • Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:15:01 EDT



> > 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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