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One way of smoking was this. The American Indians threw some tobacco leaves on a fire. Then they put long tubes in their mouths. Wholesale coach handbags， the other ends of the tubes were over the fire: so they were able to draw the smoke in to their mouths.
About the year 1560 a Frenchman, jean nicot, was living in Lisbon, Portugal. He was very interested in American plants, because some of them were every different from the plants of Europe. He used the leaves of the tobacco plant to cure pain. When a man had a bad pain in a leg or an arm, nicot would put tobacco leaves on the painful place, and try to cure the pain in that way. We say now that tobacco contains nicotine. The word nicotine comes from this man’s name.
Tobacco was used as a cure in many ways. wholesale designer handbags, Sometimes a horse was so ill that it could not walk properly. Then a man blew some tobacco smoke in to the horse’s nose. He believed that this would make the horse better. Poor horse! Nobody blows smoke at horses now.
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