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How come we light tobacco in un-healthy paper and enjoy the smoking habit?
Someone (probably an old Chinese wise man) told me in the past - Cigarette is the only product that kills you, if and when it is used by the manufacturer's instructions.
The first cigarette in America, was invented by the local Indians who saw how Spaniards from Europe smoke and chew tobacco. Tobacco is used in a cigarette/hookah/toke pipes or rolled papers. The traditional attached filter suppose to filter most of the poisons found in the commercial cigarettes...but they're not. These days, they are mostly used by the cigarettes manufacturers to give the cigarette the wanted after taste.
World wide numbers shows that there are about 1.1 billion smokers around the world, and they smoke about 5.5 trillion cigarettes per year. 40% of the worlds Men population smokes, and about 10% of women.
In western culture, tobacco cigarettes are considered as drug, mostly because of the Nicotine which is an addictive substance, a narcotic one some might say. Through our healthy lungs, the smokes drives Nicotine to our brain in about 10 seconds. Then the body produces more and more arousing hormones (noradrenaline & dopamine) and gives a sense of pleasure and enjoyment.
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