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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10760, 6 May 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

The idea that tobacco has been known in Europe only since the 'discovery of .America is incorrect. In _ fact, tli9 Jledes and Perisans a long time before our era smoked narghiles,- as ancient scnlptm"": prove. A philologist has .suggested that the Greeks and- Romans suioked tobacco av lea si in their colons iqs. In the Malay Archipelago the use of cigars -aiud cigarettes is said to date nuicli further back than the discovery of America. Tik- v.ofd "cigar" seems to show tliat man's .solace and comforter did not originate in the West Indies, but is most likely derived from "c-akara," and Arab word meaning Mitc-ke.