Sunday, September 7, 2008
tobbaco in the new world
Tobacco was one of the main raw materiels that America sent to Britan. It was very important for the economy and many men were tobacco farmers, including George Washington, before he joined the army and after he stopped being the president. The first time that Europeans were introduced to tobacco was when Christopher Columbus and his men encountered native americans "drinking" in the smoke of tobacco leaves. As we have figured out today the usasage of tobacco is bad and deadly for the person using it (recent studys have indicated that second hand smoke only increases the victems cancer rate by 1 or 2%. This doesn't mean however that you can smoke when other people are around.)
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I always thought that Native Americans were very healthy, so I was surprised to hear that they drank tobacco. I looked online, thougth, and I found out that they didn't drink too much of it, so in wasn't very bad for them.
I didn't know smoking only increased cancer by 1 -2 %
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