Tobacco is a chemical substance harmful to health that is consumed on a large scale by a large population around the world. Although we might think that tobacco is a drug of recent consumption, the truth is that the first evidence of tobacco was discovered in 2010 in Peru and it is estimated that it was a fossil with approximately 2.5 million before Christ.

For more than 10,000 years, tobacco was used routinely for religious ceremonies in Central and North America. Little by little it spread until it conquered the entire continent around the 1st century.

The arrival of tobacco in Europe could not be otherwise than, after the conquest of Columbus, on his second visit to America, he tried this plant and began to consider it a healing substance. Indeed, quite the opposite of what is currently considered. For this reason, during the following years, its consumption increased considerably until the industrial revolution.

During the Second Industrial Revolution, a cigarette-making machine was made. This machine could create 120,000 cigarettes per day, which allowed for greater production and greater sales for daily consumption.

People used cigarettes in the Wars (first and second) as a method of anti-stress and motivation and women began to have jobs outside the home and this also led to an increase in consumption in them. Little by little, during the 20th century, the first studies began to appear showing that tobacco is a toxic substance for our body and that it causes health problems and fatal diseases.

This has not been an impediment for people to continue smoking and using tobacco on a daily basis. It doesn't smoke as much today as it did 30 years ago, but its audience is still there, ready to smoke cigarettes.

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