Editing Tobacco (section)

===Traditional use===
[[File:Chute tobacco.JPG|thumb|The earliest depiction of a European man smoking, from ''Tobacco'' by [[Anthony Chute]], 1595]]
[[File:Rajput (Jodhpur) (8411728143).jpg|thumb|An [[Indian people|Indian]] man smoking tobacco through a [[hookah]], [[Rajasthan, India]]]]
Tobacco has long been used in the Americas, with some cultivation sites in Mexico dating back to 1400–1000 BC.<ref>Goodman, Jordan. ''Tobacco in History and Culture: An Encyclopedia'' (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2005).</ref> Many Native American tribes traditionally grow and use tobacco.<ref name=leonard>{{cite book
 |last=Leonard
 |first=Jonathan Norton
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 |date=1970
 |title=Recipes, Latin American cooking
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 |publisher=Time-Life International (Nederlands)
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}}</ref> Historically, people from the [[Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands|Northeast Woodlands cultures]] have carried tobacco in pouches as a readily accepted trade item. It was smoked both socially and [[Ceremonial pipe|ceremonially]], such as to seal a peace treaty or trade agreement.<ref>e.g. Heckewelder, ''History, Manners and Customs of the Indian Nations who Once Inhabited Pennsylvania'', p. 149 ff.</ref><ref>"They smoke with excessive eagerness&nbsp;... men, women, girls and boys, all find their keenest pleasure in this way." – Dièreville describing the [[Mi'kmaq people|Mi'kmaq]], ''circa'' 1699 in ''Port Royal''.</ref> In some Native cultures, tobacco is seen as a gift from the [[Creator deity|Creator]], with the ceremonial tobacco smoke carrying one's thoughts and prayers to the Creator.<ref>{{Ci
te book |last=Gottsegen |first=Jack Jacob |title=Tobacco: A Study of Its Consumption in the United States |date=1940 |publisher=[[Pitman (publisher)|Pitman]] |page=107 |oclc=14728283}}</ref>

Some Native Americans consider tobacco to be a medicine and advocate for its respectful usage, rather than a commercial one.<ref>{{cite journal |id={{ProQuest|204813987}} |last1=Cohen |first1=Ken |title=Native American medicine |journal=Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine |volume=4 |issue=6 |date=November 1998 |pages=45–57 |pmid=9810067 }}</ref>