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Tobacco smoking, using both pipes and cigars, was common to many Native American cultures. It is depicted in the art of the Classic-era Maya civilization about 1,500 years ago. The Mayans smoked tobacco and also mixed it with lime and chewed it in a snuff-like substance. Among the Mayans tobacco was used as an all-purpose medicine, and was widely believed to have magical powers, being used in divinations and talismans. It was also burned as a sacrifice to the gods; a tobacco gourd was worn as a badge by midwives.

= Modern history

6000 Bc native were caught smoking by amerigo vespuci -Tobbacco is the leading cause of lung cancer

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