Right Relation with Tobacco: Decommercialization and Reverence.

The much-maligned tobacco plant has been exploited to kill more people than any other plant, with yearly tobacco deaths exceeding eight million globally. Yet, for Indigenous peoples with many millennia of relationship with tobacco, the herb is regarded as a sacrament, a reminder of humility, a sourc...

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Published in:	Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 61; no. 1; pp. 14 - 44
Main Author:	Hendlin, Yogi
Format:	Article
Published:	Open Library of Humanities Mar2026
Subjects:	Tobacco Spirituality Public health Indigenous peoples of South America Botany Social change Postcolonialism Sociocultural factors
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost