Facts About Smoking

# Fact 1

Nicotine was named after the French ambassador, Jean Nicot. In the middle of the 16th century Jean Nicot was the first to bring tobacco to France. He introduced it and distributed it as a medicine. He brought it to help queen Catharin de 'Medici of her headache.

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# Fact 2

The ash remains in your lungs. Recent studies have shown that after two years of smoking up to 10 cigarettes a day, there will remain about 2 kg of ash residues in the body.

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# Fact 3

The first efforts to ban smoking started in the 1600s. King James tried to ban smoking around 1604, he saw it as the cause of laziness and moral laxness, he imposed a 4,000 percent tax hike on tobacco. The patriarch of Moscow was one of the first to ban smoking in 1634, if people would violate this order they would get whipped.

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# Fact 4

At birth, Pablo Picasso was considered stillborn by the midwife. The midwife left him on a table to help his mother, it was the doctor named Don Salvador, who was his uncle, that saved him. In that time it was normal for doctors to smoke cigars, when his uncle saw him lying on the table, he blew some smoke in his face, this made Pablo react.

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# Fact 5

The first one's to discover tobacco were the native people of Mesoamerica and South America.
Tobacco was used in religious rituals, they saw it as something sacred. The smoke of tobacco was food for the spirits, tobacco smoke was seen as carrying one's thoughts and prayers to the spirits. To this day people still use tobacco in religious rituals.

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# Fact 6

Tobacco is an unregulated commodity. This put the tobacco industry in a position that they can put anything they like into their products.

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# Fact 7

In just one hookah tobacco smoking session, you inhale 25 times more tar then smoking one cigarette

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# Fact 8

Urea is the main ingredient in urine. Tobacco companies use urea and add this to their cigarettes, this is to enhance the flavour of their cigarettes, that you are smoking.

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# Fact 9

Smoking cigarettes causes damage in minutes, not in years. Just one single cigarette contains over more than 4,800 chemicals, 69 of these chemicals are known to cause cancer. Secondhand smoke contains over 7000 chemicals, 70 of these chemicals cause cancer.

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# Fact 10

   

The level of smoking is higher among people who live below the poverty line and those who are poorly educated.

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