Cigarette! What are you thinking of it?

Tweet

Cigarettes were invented in 1614 by those begging in Seville,Spain,a center for cigar prodution. The beggars collected small pieces of tobacco and rolled it in paper. However,snuff,cigars,and pipes remained the most popular means of using tobacco until the 19th century. Cigarette popularity rose when British soldiers fighting in the Crimean War(1853-1856) found the cigarettes of their Turkish allies to be more convenient than pipes of cigars. Cigarettes grew in popilarity in the United States after the Civil War(1861-1865)but were relatively expensive because they were hand-rolled. Cigarette prices fell after American inventor James A.Bonsack patented a machine to roll cigarettes in 1880;the machines could produce more than 10,000 cigarettes in an hour. By 1919,cigarettes were more popular than cigars. Smoking continued to grow in popularity until the 1960s and 1970s,when awareness of its health risks grew. Tobacco contains nicotine,an addictive drug. Tobacco smoke also contains more than 4,000 chemical compounds,including at least 43 cancer-causing compounds. Forms of tobacco that are smoked--cigarettes,pipes,and cigars--cause lung cancer,and other respiratory disease. Smoking also leads to heart disease and,in pregnant women who smoke,low brith weight of newborns. Chewing tobacco and inhaling snuff causes cancer of the mouth,nose,and can lead to nicotine addiction.