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[12] Chen, Z et al

For the Huni Kuin people in Brazil, tobacco is the quintessential healing substance. For the Matsigenka people in Peru, tobacco is a medicine in the fullest sense. More generally speaking, tobacco is the shamanic plant par excellence in South America without which no shamanic activity can take place. Blowing tobacco smoke on a patient or applying tobacco juice to the part of the body that appears to be suffering is the most common healing practice in the whole Amazonian region. However, it is important to note that Amazonian people tend not to make a radical distinction between medicine and poison. Some Amazonian languages use the same word to refer to both concepts

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The harmful effects of cigarettes are principally caused by burning tobacco, which produces tar, carbon monoxide and numerous toxic chemicals