A BRIEF HISTORY OF CIGARETTES
According to a historian;TOBACCO has no literal history prior to the discovery of America
Natives in the caribbean offered it to Columbus.Its export ensured the survival of Jamestown {the first permanent British settlement in North America}..its sale helped finance the America revolution ...and the early US presidents ;George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were tobacco growers.
In recent times,hollywood used cigarettes as a symbol of romance,charm,manhood.
American soldiers gave it to people they met in coutries where they fought.And it is said that that following the second world war,cigarettes were currency "from paris to peking".
But things changed on Jauary 11 1964 A US surgeon general released a 387-page report linking smoking with emphysema,lung cancer and other serious diseases.
Soon federal laws required the warning "caution:cigarette smoking may be hazardous to ur health" on all cigarette packs sold in the united states...smoking is said to be responsible for a estimated 480,000 deaths a year in the US.That is more than the number of all the americans killed in battle during the past century.
SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT CIGARETTES
*Nonsmoking wives have a 35% higher risk of lung cancer if their HUSBAND smokes
*A estimated 90% of lung cancer cases in men and 79% in women are caused by cigarette smoking
*For a 2-pack a day smoker who has smoked for over 40 years,the lung cancer mortality rate is about 22 times higher than a nonsmoker
*There is no such thing as a safe cigarette
*The use of tobacco by chewing or snuff icreases risk of cancer of the mouth larynx,throat,oesophagus
*People who quit smoking,regardless of age,live longer than people who continue to smoke.smokers who quit before age 50 have half the risk of dying in the next 15 years compared with those who continue to smoke
*Cigarette smoking causes;pneumoia,leukemia,cataracts,gum disease and cancers of the kidey,cervix,stomach and pancreas.
Junak '17