Within the Sapara community, and many other indigenous groups within the Amazon, tobacco is not used to party, or to cope with anxieties, or to suppress your appetite, or as an oral fixation. It is not seen through the lens of vice, addiction, or recreation. It is a form of medicine to them.




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