02-15-2018, 05:05 AM
AllGold wrote:
Recently, another thought occurred to me. Why did we as a species start smoking? Why, going back millennia, would anyone think it was a good idea to purposely inhale smoke?
One of the common sayings in Indian country is that when our ancestors first gave tobacco to the European invaders, they knew it was going to kill them, they just didn’t think it would take this long.
It's a fairly old habit:
http://nativeamericannetroots.net/diary/746