Here are some interesting tobacco facts that you should know.

No Tobacco Day, here are some interesting tobacco facts that you should know.

1. Two men who appeared in the wildly popular Marlboro Man advertisements diedof lung cancer, earning Marlboro cigarettes the nickname “Cowboy Killer.”
2. Tobacco smoking, particularly cigarette smoking, is the single-most preventable cause of the death in many parts of the world.
3. Every cigarette smoked cuts at least five minutes of life on average, which is roughly the time it takes to smoke one cigarette.
4. Of the thousands of chemical agents in tobacco smoke, more than 50 have been proven to cause cancer.a
5. Within 20 minutes of quitting smoking, a person’s blood pressure returns to normal. Within one year, the chance of suffering a heart attack decreases by half
6. Tobacco consumption is associated with not just lung cancer, but cancer of the mouth, food pipe, pancreas and urinary bladder and cervix.
7. Smokers have a much higher risk of heart disease and chronic bronchitis.
8. Smoking causes more deaths due to heart attacks than by cancer.

Women, sex and tobacco.

9. Women in the United States increasingly began smoking publicly in the 1920s when the cigarette was adopted by advertisers as a symbol of equality, rebellion, and women’s independence. Currently, cigarette smoking kills an estimated 178,030 women in the United States annually.
10. Pregnant women who smoke are more likely to deliver not only low birth weight babies but also highly aggressive children.
11. A British survey found that nearly 99% of women did not know the link between smoking and cervical cancer.
12. The cigarette and cigar are recognised phallic symbols, and several Internet sites are devoted to smoking fetishisms.c Ironically, smoking has been directly linked to sexual impotence.

The Devil’s fart

13. Cigarettes are the most traded item in the world.
14. Currently, over 5.5 trillion cigarettes are produced globally per year. Cigarettes are an attractive source of government revenue because so many people smoke them.
15. Smoking tobacco emerged from religious ceremonies in the Americas and was probably initially restricted to only shamans, priests, and medicine men.
16. Ramon Pane, a monk who accompanied Christopher Columbus to the Americas, is usually credited with introducing tobacco to Europe.
17. Nicotine is named after Jean Nicot, the French ambassador to Portugal who brought tobacco and smoking to the French court in the mid-sixteenth century as a medicine.
18. 19. Anti-cigarette activist and automaker Henry Ford popularised the term “The Little White Slaver” in reference to the cigarette in the early twentieth century. Both Henry Ford and Thomas A. Edison objected to cigarettes and refused to hire anyone who smoked them, on or off the job.
19. India ranks highest in the world in oral cancer, caused mainly due to tobacco chewing.
20. Renaissance author Ben Jonson called smoking the "devil’s fart.