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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Doesn’t matter where the archaic plant grew naturally originally. That would be like crediting africa for cola soda pop.

Turks invented the type of tobacco used in modern cigarettes.


93 posted on 02/20/2011 2:58:24 PM PST by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: mamelukesabre
No, it would be like saying that the English invented Phonetic writing.

And no the Turks bred (not invented) a type of tobacco plant that is used in some (not all) cigarettes. However the plant they used was originally bred in the Americas along with a number of other tobacco plant strains.

So sorry, the Turks are not the inventors of, well, much of anything.

94 posted on 02/20/2011 5:30:15 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (When all you have is bolt cutters & vodka everything looks like the lock on Wolf Blitzer's boathouse)
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