It is good to be sociable, but not at the cost of your own health. You wouldn't accept a poison-gas cigaret if someone offered it to you simply in order to be sociable, nor would you for the same reason accept a glass of prussic acid to drink. You'd be dead within a few minutes. Because the fatal effects would be immediate, you have enough sense to avoid consuming anything containing such poisonous substances. But since the ill-effects of smoking are not perceptibly immediate, you don't bother about the possibility of damage in the future. You, you say to yourself, live for the present not the future.

use it has developed into a multi-billion dollar industry around the globe. The industry is based upon a few large corporations split into several brand names and is very competitive in nature. Due to the large size of the industry the government is forced to regulate and investigate the sale of such products. In addition due the fact that it has recently been discovered to be hazardous to one’s health additional regulations have been placed on the industry. Tobacco has, in effect, provided a large world market and it has fueled many political and cultural debates.

In 1847 the Phillip Morris company began, still around today, selling hand rolled Turkish cigarettes. Cigarettes became popular because of English soldiers who brought them back from war with the Russians and Turkish. Later after in 1875 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company was founded, producing chewing tobacco. It was not till the 1900 that cigarettes became the most produced and sold tobacco product in the US.

Furthermore, advertisements for smoking cessation clinics have been rejected by magazines which also run tobacco advertisements (Warner et al, 1986, p375).

The tobacco industry continues to succeed against government legislation since it, " has [had] enormous success in getting congress either to oppose or not act upon most [of it's anti-tobacco] legislation."(Koven, 161) The tobacco companies and Political action comities help finance the campaigns of nearly half of the senate and House of Representatives. . In 1847 the Phillip Morris company began, still around today, selling hand rolled Turkish cigarettes. Cigarettes became popular because of English soldiers who brought them back from war with the Russians and Turkish. Later after in 1875 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company was founded, producing chewing tobacco. It was not till the 1900 that cigarettes became the most produced and sold tobacco product in the US.

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