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"Tobacco-producing plants are derived from the genus Nicotiana of the nightshade family. Other well-known nightshades in the service of mankind include food plants like potato, tomato, pepper, and eggplant; hallucinogens like thorn apple, mandrake, henbane, and belladona; and several garden ornamentals like petunia, which derives its name from the Tupían designation petún for tobacco, the most notorious nightshade of them all."

P. Xvi

"But from pre-Contact times to roughly 1700 of the historic era, tobacco seems primarily to have served magico-religious and more or less related medicinal ends (Cooper 1949:526-27). As a result, the plant had a major impact on tribal value systems until, under the influence of the advancing frontier, the ideological tenets of tobacco beliefs began to shift increasingly from the religious to the profane."

P. Xvii

"Prehistoric evidence for tobacco use in South America may go back som efifteen hundred years in the case of an assemblage of......

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