[Tobacco: sacred and profane as regards smoke].
Blowing smoke was a sacred habit among the American Indian people in Brazil at the arrival of the first Europeans. That remains a practice of prevention and recovery among the remote people of Amazon and Rio Negro. Addiction to smoking was propagated by Nicot in Europe for the pleasure it procures but it became such real plague of the modern society that every country has to struggle against its given attractive image of a way of life.
Botelho
João Bosco
JB
Service d'oto-rhino-laryngologie et chirurgie cervico-faciale de l'hôpital Adriano Jorge, de l'Université de l'état d'Amazonas, Brésil. joaoboscobotelho@gmail.com
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