The history of smoking can be dated to as early as 5000 BC and has been registered in many different cultures across the globe. Early smoking evolved in association with religious ceremonies; as offerings to the gods, in cleansing rituals or to allow shamans and priests to alter their minds for purposes of divination or spiritual enlightenment. After the European disquisition and subjection of the Americas, the practice of smoking tobacco snappily spread to the rest of the world like fire. In regions like India and Subsaharan Africa, it intermingled with practices of smoking( substantially cannabis). In Europe, it introduced a new type of social exertion and a form of medical input which preliminarily had been unknown.
The artistic perception of girding smoking has varied over time and from one place to another; holy and unethical, sophisticated and vulgar, a nostrum and deadly health hazard. Only lately, and effectively in industrialized Western countries, has smoking come to be viewed in a substantially negative light. Today medical studies have proven that smoking is among the leading causes of diseases such as lung cancer[1], heart attacks[2] and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and can also lead to birth defects. The well-proven health hazards of smoking have caused numerous countries to institute high levies on tobacco products and anti-smoking juggernauts are launched every time in an attempt to check to smoke. Several nations, countries, and metropolises have also assessed smoking bans in utmost public structures. Despite these bans, European countries still hold 18 of the top 20 spots, and according to the ERC, a request exploration company, the heaviest smokers are from Greece, comprising,000 cigarettes per person in 2007.
