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American Indians smoked tobacco for many centuries before Europeans arrived in the New World. The Aztec Indians of Mexico smoked tobacco they rolled in corn husks. But the first European to smoke tobacco was Rodrigo de Jerez, one of Christopher Columbus’s crew members. Jerez sampled tobacco given to him by Indians in the Caribbe
