Nicotine is a neurobiological disease. Dispite powerful public awareness campaigns and diverse range of smoking control imitative, smoking remains the single largest cause of preventable death in Australia. It is estimated that 3.6 million Australian smoke with tobacco responsible for 50 Deaths each day, 350 a week and smoking on Human health has been questioned ever since approximately 18000 each year. The effect of European explorers introduced tobacco into Spain and England in the 16th Century. While some praised the peace pipe smoking chewing and snuff taking as pleasurable and attributed medical properties to tobacco, others condemned smoking as a foul, loathsome custom that could harm both the brain and lungs. Despite the long-standing controversy, however, not until the 20th Century was organized efforts made to determine the health consequences of smoking. In the 1930's, when a significant increase in deaths from lung cancer was noted, scientists began to conduct experimental and clinical studies of the subject. In the 1950's and 1960's, massive population studies were made that linked cigarette smoking statistically with deaths from a number of diseases, including lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Evidence from these studies helped many medical societies brand smoking as a significant health hazard. The History An aromatic herb native to the Americans, tobacco had long been used to the Indians for its narcotic effect. When European explorers first came to the new world, nearly 500 years ago, they found natives everywhere growing the plant and smoking its dry leaves. The crew of .
Christopher Columbus found the natives in present day Cuba rolling their own cigars, which they called tobacco. The French explorer Jacques Cartier in 1635 found Indians in what is now Montreal, Canada Inhaling tobacco smoke from pipes.
Originally; tobacco was consumed primarily in the form of cigars, chewing tobacco and snuff.
