The history of tobacco is well known to almost everyone. A century before Columbus sailed to America; Native Americans discovered the dried leaves of the tobacco plant can produce mild, flavorful smoke. Two members of Columbus¡¯ crew, Rodrigo de Jerez and Luis de Torres, saw this tobacco and introduced this Pandora¡¯s Box to Europe. Soon it became popular in Spain, and tobacco growing and trading became very profitable in British American colonies. Inventions from the Industrial Revolution were made for the mass production of tobacco in 1881, producing 120,000 cigarettes a day per each mac

From this point, the production and advertising of tobacco were limited by laws, and today we can see a conspicuous warning on the pack such as ¡°Smoking can kill you¡± or ¡°Tobacco is addictive.¡± Now, how bad is smoking cigarette? There are numerous effects of smoking that affect the individual. Containing around 4000 chemicals, 40 of which being cancerous, cigarette causes increased pulse rate and blood pressure, dulled sense of taste and smell, watering of eyes, and a reduction of brain and nervous activity and production of urine. These are, however, mild cases. Recent researches have found that smoking can cause abnormalities in the sperm, damaging the X and Y sex chromosomes in the sperm. It also increases risk of gangrene, number of respiratory infections such as colds, pneumonia and chronic bronchitis, asthma, emphysema and coronary heart disease and heart attack. Every year, 420,000 Americans die directly caused by smoking cigarette. They can affect not only your health but also your social and family life. It can also affect the non-smoker around you. Non-smokers suffer from allergies, noise and eye irritations and headaches as a result of inhaling second hand smoke. Smoking while you¡¯re pregnant can result to the growth of the

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