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(It is from Nicots surname that the word nicotine derives.) The first recorded mention of smoking was in 1556 ( Raleigh was four years old) when a Bristol sailor was seen

Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries tobacco had been the principal cash crop for Southside Virginia, a crop that enabled the regions farmers to sustain themselves following the Civil War and Reconstruction

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