How tobacco discovers and it's harmful effect?

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People know that tobacco has a bad effect in the health but they ignore it and continue to use it until they realize that their disease came from smoking. According to World Health Organization (WHO) Tobacco kills nearly 6 million people each year. More than five million of those deaths are the result of direct use of tobacco and more than 600 000 are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke. How people ignored it? maybe their relative and friend included in this 6 million death due to smoking, the taste of tobacco are stronger that their will to stop. Further report say Tobacco caused 100 million deaths in the 20th century. And if current trends continue, it may cause one billion deaths in the 21st century. After your relative and friend, you are next.

How tobacco discovers and become famous?

When people start using tobacco and when their health suffers, the epidemic of tobacco-related disease and death has just begun, not also their health but also their income and economic status the smoker who die prematurely deprive their families of income, raise the cost of health care and hinder economic development.

In the beginning Tobacco is a plant that grows natively in North and South America, about 6,000 B.C.! The same family of potato, pepper and poisonous nightshade, a very deadly plant. All this plant has a bad effect in our health, it first uses by American Indians nearly 1BC in many different ways, like in religious and medicinal practices. And believing that it was cure-all, to dress wounds, a pain killer. And in toothache when it chewed.

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When Christopher Columbus encountered this American Indian on Oct. 15, 1492 the American Indian gave him a tobacco leaves as a gift when he get back to Europe with tobacco leaves the plants grow all over Europe. It become popular in Europe because of its supposed healing properties, they believed that it could cure almost anything, from bad breath to cancer. some popular person in Europe promoted the use of tobacco that can cure 36 health problem according to A Spanish doctor named Nicolas Monardes in 1571 in his book “the history of medicinal plants of the new world" but over the years of popularity scientists begin to understand the chemicals in tobacco, as well as the dangerous health effects smoking And finally discovered the pure form of nicotine that is dangerous poison.

In 1826, the pure form of nicotine is finally discovered. Soon after, scientists conclude that nicotine is a dangerous poison. And also insecticide and can kill a man according to Samuel green (1836). Nicotine is the drug in tobacco that makes smoking a powerful addiction. Experts rank nicotine ahead of alcohol, cocaine and heroin with regard to the severity of dependence resulting from its use.

In 1950's, more and more evidence was surfacing that smoking was linked to lung cancer, then Tumors in 1953.

Health Hazards Revealed, A campaign against tobacco begins. How lethal is smoking to smokers?

Unless smokers quit, but up to half of all smokers will die from their smoking, after years of suffering a reduced quality of life. Most of them died before their 70th birthday

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Why does smoking kill?

Tobacco smoke contains more than 4,000 chemicals. A harmful substances, such as, tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide, benzene, formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide that cause cancer. Despite of this discovery about nicotine, the use of tobacco continue to grow Along with the popularity of cigarettes, however, was a small but growing anti-tobacco campaign, with some states proposing a total ban on tobacco.

• In 1965, television cigarette ads are taken offthe air in Great Britain.
• In 1966, those health warnings on cigarette packs begin popping up.
• In 1971, television ads for cigarettes are finally taken off the air in the U.S. Cigarettes, however, are still the most heavily advertised product second to automobiles!
• In 1977, the first national Great American Smoke out takes place.
• During the 1980's there were many lawsuits filed against the tobacco industry because of the harmful effects of its products. And many more campaign arises in every place, other campaigner conduct educational tour to schools teaching the young’s and student the bad effect of smoking.
• In 1982, the Surgeon General reports that second hand smoke may cause lung cancer. That’s why Smoking in public areas is soon restricted, especially at the workplace. Second hand smoker, those people who didn’t smoke but expose on people who smoke near them, so, we must stay away from smoker.
• In 1985, lung cancer became the #1 killer of women, beating out breast cancer!

But sadly despite of this report from some Doctor and Scientist from the beginning, that until now are being certified by modern Doctor, the market of tobacco continued until today, even the people know it's harmful effect in our body, they still deny it. Their famous tagline "we will die even we didn’t smoke, so, it’s the same, to smoke and not"


Well, the truth is out there, that is, they can’t deny. They die on their own hand.


References:
http://academic.udayton.edu/health/syllabi/tobacco/history.htm
http://www.health.gov.sk.ca/health-effects-tobacco