Peter joined in the army when he was eighteen,

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and for several month he was taught how to be a

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good soldier．He did quite well in nothing except shooting．

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One day he and his friends were practising to shoot,

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and all of whom were doing quite well except Peter．

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After he had shot the target nine times and hadn't

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hit once, the officer said, “You're quite hopeless．Don't waste

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your last bullet!Go to behind that wall and shoot

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yourself by it!”Peter went to behind the wall, and a

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few seconds later the officer hear the sound of a shot．

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“Heavens!”the officer said, “Has he really shot himself?”He ran to behind the wall, but

Peter was all right．“I'm sorry, sir, ”he said, “but I missed once again．”

　　Doctors tell us not to smoke; but a lot of people

smoke tobacco every day．Long ago, no one in Europe smoked;

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the tobacco plant was known there．It grew in America, and

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Christopher Columbus found it there．Later, he returned to

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Europe and told everyone about tobacco．He said that

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the American Indian often smoked it．Around the year

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in 1560 a Frenchman, Jean Nicot, was living in Lisbon,

Portugal．He was very interested in all America plants;

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some of them were very different from that of Europe．He

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and the other man too used the leaves of the tobacco plant

to cure pain．If a man had a bad pain in a leg or

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an arm, Nicot put tobacco leave on the painful place, and

tried to cure the pain by that way．We now know that

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tobacco contain(含有)nicotin．Thus the word“nicotin”,

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which comes from this man's name, come into being．