| Smoking tobacco has been around a lot longer than | | | | a resounding flop. By that time, London had |
| most people think, beginning somewhere in the area of | | | | somewhere in the area of seven thousand tobacco |
| 5000 BC. It made its way to the old World in the 1500s | | | | sellers. In case you are the smoker who has already |
| and although it was sharply criticized, became popular. | | | | tried to stop & couldn't, and you know how much |
| In the early 1920s, German scientists identified a link | | | | hard it is just quitting. In case you are not the smoker |
| between smoking tobacco and lung cancer but the | | | | however have loved ones who are doing, believe me, |
| anti-smoking campaign that began there but that | | | | it is very hard to quit smoking. You learn to suppress |
| sentiment wouldn’t begin to be shared worldwide | | | | the body's normal protective action to hot, and polluted |
| until the 1950s. It wasn’t until the 1980’s, with | | | | smoke that is entering your lungs. The lungs designed |
| scientific evidence continuing to pile up, that the political | | | | for cleaning air only and you learn to control the body |
| world really started to take note and spoke for the | | | | with your whole mind! |
| first time about the evils of tobacco. You see, knowing | | | | By the middle of the 1600s, tobacco had found its way |
| to smoke was hardest as well as most miserable task | | | | to every major continent and had injected itself into |
| that you have undertook in young life! And smoking | | | | native culture. Many rulers tried to keep it at bay, |
| was something, which you need to learn to do and | | | | imposing fines and punishments for partaking in the |
| you did not just pick up the cigarette as well as start | | | | smoking or sale of tobacco, but it was no use. |
| smoking. Also, it took some time with persistence as | | | | Smoking had arrived and it wasn’t going anywhere. |
| well as enduing good misery to learn to start smoking. | | | | In 1881, James Bonsack came up with a machine to |
| There were cases much earlier of political leaders | | | | speed up the production of cigarettes. So it is simple to |
| trying to put an end to tobacco use. One of the | | | | see why smoker just cannot remember the time |
| harshest examples of this came in 1634 when the | | | | when they did not smoke. Obviously, another reason |
| Patriarch of Moscow sentenced any man or woman | | | | that the smoker does not remember is seriously |
| who broke his ban on the sale of tobacco to be | | | | unpleasant nature of learning to the smoke process. |
| whipped viciously until the skin came off their backs | | | | Cigarette smoke is caustic, hot, chemical pollution and in |
| and ordered their nostrils slit. In 1604, James I of | | | | case it gets in eyes, that makes them burn & |
| England took a less horrific approach and imposed a | | | | water. It will make your skin little itchy in sensitive |
| four thousand percent tax increase on tobacco. It was | | | | people. And the rest is history. |