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Tar is the leading cause of throat and lung cancer

Despite some popular belief to the contrary, not all carcinogens are caused by burning chemicals

Sir Walter Raleigh was the first explorer to bring the leaf to Europe, and in later decades before the American Revolution, settlers in Carolina grew tobacco with moderate success along the Atlantic coastline

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He once raised over 23 acres of tobacco full-time and is now managing two to three, working the fields and stripping the leaves of the stalk on nights and weekends

These mutations represent starting points for genetic damage that can eventually lead to cancer