Charred seeds found in an ancient hearth used by hunter-gatherers in what's now Utah suggest that humans used tobacco more than 12,000 years ago -- 9,000 years earlier than previously documented and well before agriculture took root in the Americas.
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It is a habit that dates back to the Stone Age, new research shows. Charred seeds found in an ancient hearth used by hunter-gatherers in what's now Utah suggest that humans used tobacco more than 12,000 years ago -- 9,000 years earlier than previously documented and well before agriculture took root in the Americas.
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