Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 24, DeMotte, Jasper County, 5 January 1933 — Tobacco as Healer [ARTICLE]

Tobacco as Healer

When tobacco made its debut In Europe, everything was expected of it that the Indians expected. It was be-L, Meved that it not only cured but warded off disease, and the plague was fought with tobacco smoke in Spain, France and England. Even now there are those who think that a chew nf tobacco, placed on a wound, will heal it. Before the end of the Sixteenth century tobacco was grown not onls In Europe but in Turkey, China and many other outlying places. In the course of centuries it changed in flavor and appearance because of the differences of climate and soil, so that now experts can tell where tobacco was grown when they look at it or smell it.