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Native people teach settler-colonists about tobacco as medicine.

Date: 1600s

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Settler-colonists also begin to use tobacco outside of traditional ways taught by Native people. Tobacco becomes the "wonder drug," believed to cure everything, including syphilis, skin cancers, bad moods, etc. It is applied to skin, drunk as liquid, inserted into all orifices, and blown into the ears and eyes.