Among the Iroquois, for example, tobacco was associated with creation myths and was considered a sacred plant
"Since its inception, we had more than 2 million phone calls and we're approaching 1 million people who have quit successfully," Andrew Hyland, chair of the Department of Health Behavior, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, said
For some it is a unique product which is not directly substitutable with cigarettes
doi: 10.1016/0378-8741(82)90042-3 Summary Keywords tobacco, Nicotiana rustica L., Amazon, medicinal plant, Peru, psychoactive, psychedelic-assisted therapy, traditional medicine (TM) Citation Berlowitz I, Torres EG, Walt H, Wolf U, Maake C and Martin-Soelch C (2020) Tobacco Is the Chief Medicinal Plant in My Work : Therapeutic Uses of Tobacco in Peruvian Amazonian Medicine Exemplified by the Work of a Maestro Tabaquero
The choice of meat revolves around pork, which can be either tender shreds or succulent slices