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In Colorado, a previous state law (which was influenced by the tobacco industry) ruled that if a local jurisdiction passed a retail licensing law for cigarettes or a cigarette tax law, the jurisdiction would forfeit their eligibility to receive their portion of cigarette sales tax money from the state

But it had other medicinal uses as well: bites by poisonous snakes, spiders and insects were generally treated by cutting into the bite, sucking out the poison, and then rubbing [into the wound] with ground-up tobacco (presumably to act as an analgesic), followed by a careful diet (Ortiz de Montellano, quoting Sahagn)