Complex sentence: Apart from certain forms of heavily cured and strong snuff, the cigar is the most potent form of self-dosing with tobacco, it has long had associations of being a male rite of passage, as it may have had during the pre-Columbian era in America.
Split into simpler sentences: Apart from certain forms of heavily cured and strong snuff, the cigar is the most potent form of self-dosing with tobacco. It has long had associations of being a male rite of passage, as it may have had during the pre-Columbian era in America.