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in ScienceWhen was the earliest known human use of tobacco?
Scientists have found evidence of the earliest known tobacco use in the remains of a hearth built by early inhabitants of North America’s interior about 12,300 years ago in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert. Until now, the earliest documented tobacco use came in nicotine residue found inside a smoking pipe from Alabama dating to 3,300…