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The Conflict of Tobacco Education Among American Indians: Traditional Practice or Health Risk?

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Tobacco and Health

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Tobacco has always been and continues to be an integral part of Native American religions. Tobacco provides Indian people a connection between their own culture and the spirit world. The practice of using tobacco is very honorable in religious beliefs of a tribe and has been associated with peace and healing among American Indians (AIs) for generations. Tobacco is used as an offering, as a medicine, for prayer, or a sacrament. Tobacco use during prayer or ceremony may be smoked (inhaled or not inhaled), used in a pipe or in the form of a cigarette, placed in the fire, placed on a drum, given as a gift, or used to contact the spirit world.1

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  1. Department of Health and Community Services, California State University, Chico, CA, USA

    Diana Flannery

  2. American Indian Outreach Advisor, California State University, Chico, CA, USA

    Caleen Sisk-Franco

  3. Tobacco Research Center, West Virginia University Mary Babb Cancer Center, Morgantown, WV, USA

    Penny N. Glover

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  1. Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France

    Karen Slama

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Flannery, D., Sisk-Franco, C., Glover, P.N. (1995). The Conflict of Tobacco Education Among American Indians: Traditional Practice or Health Risk?. In: Slama, K. (eds) Tobacco and Health. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1907-2_203

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