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Even before the founding of our nation, there were certain things that were an integral part of our society. One of these was the tobacco plant. Hundreds of years before Europeans set foot on what is now our country; Native Americans who were indigenous of this land grew this plant. For hundreds of years it was a vital part of their society. Native Americans cultivated tobacco in North America before the first English settlers arrived in Jamestown in 1607(smokingsides.com). The Indians believed that native tobacco had both religious and medicinal importance. Its use, for example, had great ritual significance for the Indians in the Chesapeake region. Native Americans often smoked tobacco in a pipe to cement a peace accord (smokingsides.com).
When Europeans arrived in the Americas, nothing changed. In 1612 John Rolfe, an Englishman sent with the Virginia Company, found that tobacco would grow well in Virginia and sell profitably in England (Glantz 71). This was wonderful news......

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