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Evolution of Smoking

euolution of Smoking Cigarettes are the single-most traded item on the planet, with approximately 5 trillion being sold every year. At a global take of more than $400 billion, Worldwide, approximately 15 billion cigarettes are purchased every day, 10 million are consumed every minute. 50,000 BC Tobacco used in ritualistic 5000 BC and medicinal Man discovers fire þractices in the Americas SMOKING IS GOOD FOR YOU IT SMOKES 1000 BC 100 By rolling tobacco leaves in paper. THE BRAZILIANS INVENT THE CIGARETTE ! Mayans begin chewing and smoking tobacco A CULTURAL HABIT IS FORMING leaves 1492 1556 First Englishman seen smoking Christopher Columbus took tobaccó leaves back to Queen Isabella of Spain FROM HIS NOSE BATEIOH 157E Sir Walter Raleigh introduces tobacco ( and the potato ) into the UK. TonAcco SHORI ES An Iranian physician invents the hookah pipe 1588 SHISHA WHAT A GREAT IDEA 1612 John sells the first tobacco cash crop PEOPLE START BURNING THEIR MONEY James the 1st tries to impose a 4000% tax on 1604 tobacco COMPARATIVELY LESS THAN CHRRENT TOBACCO TAX 1650 Tobacco Became so popular that it was frequently used as money! TOBACCO WAS LITERALLY 1634 Patriarch of Moscow bans smoking. AND REMOVES THE NOSTRILS OF ANYONE FOUND SMOKING. "AS GOOD AS GOLD!"" 1700 1750 Nearly 38 million pounds of tobacco is shipped to the UK each year Pipe smoking was the preferredmethod of tobacco use 1826 The pure form of nicotine is THEN PEOPLE BEGAN CHEWING TOBACCO INSTEAD H. finally discovered 1850 Cigarette making machines SMOKING IS are invented 1908 A law was þassed in NYC banning women From smoking MASS PRODUCED... FOR THE MASSES 1925 1950's US scientists discover that smoking causes cancer Boris Aivaz invents Délà VI ENSUES the filter 1964 S TUBACCO ADVERTISING. AND INEBRIATED PEOPLE WORLDWIDE START WE CAN LIVE WITHOUT IT. Tobacco LIGHTING THE WRONG END advertising banned in °UK and US. Except in sport MUCH TÔ EVERYONE'S CONFUSION OF CIGARETTES 1966 Health warnings on cigarette þacks begin Þopping up 1973 Airlines split smoking and hon-smoking for the Smoking kills 1990 Vermont becomes the first place to ban smoking indoors but this doesn't catch on elsewhere first time 1998 Tobacco companies claim contributory hegligence at a US Supreme Courthearing THEY APPARENTLY HAD BEEN BEHIND A SMOKE SCREEN SINCE 1950 2006 THE ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE IS BORN Apart from Nicotine, The E-Cigarette contains none of the 4000 harmful substances found in traditional cigarettes What's in a tobacco cigarette and not in an electronic one? - Urea : a major component in urine. - Benzene : petrol addictive. - Formaldehyde : embalming fuel. - Ammonia : toilet cleaner. - Carbon monoxide : car exhaust fumes. - Arsenic : rat poison. - Hydrogen cyanide : poison gas chamber. VAPESTICK Infographic provided by : Vapestick.co.uk VAPESTICK

Evolution of Smoking

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This an infographic is a showcase of the evolution of the cigarette, from the stone age to the latest smoking technology, take a look and learn the history of cigarettes in a fun and comic way.

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