Early Medical Uses Of Tobacco

The History of Tobacco - University of Dayton

https://academic.udayton.edu/health/syllabi/tobacco/history.htm

As early as 1 B.C., American Indians began using tobacco in many different ways, such as in religious and medicinal practices. Tobacco was believed to be a cure-all, and was used to dress wounds, as well as a pain killer. Chewing tobacco was believed to relieve the …

Tobacco Use | CDC - Centers for Disease …

https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/publications/factsheets/tobacco.htm

Smoking causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, type 2 diabetes, and other chronic health conditions. The impact also extends beyond the person …

Tobacco: The Early History of a New World Crop

https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/tobacco-the-early-history-of-a-new-world-crop.htm

As these two verses show, tobacco use has long been a controversial subject, considered by turns a vice, a panacea, an economic salvation and a foolish and dangerous habit. …

Tobacco - World Health Organization

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/tobacco

Traditional Tobacco | Keep It Sacred - ITCMI

https://keepitsacred.itcmi.org/tobacco-and-tradition/traditional-tobacco-use/

Traditional tobacco is a medicine, which can be used in a prescribed way to promote physical, spiritual, emotional, and community well-being. It may be used as an offering to …