Tobacco and the history of the USA The role tobacco played in the history of the US must not be underestimated regardless of America's enthusiastic anti-tobacco campaign that entails an attempt to clear its past from any traces of tobacco whatsoever. On the one hand tobacco was and still is considered devilish, yet the initial stages of America's economy partly originate in tobacco planting. The columns of the Capitol represent tobacco plants and the first …
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