A brief history of tobacco smoking in the US

A brief history of Tobacco Smoking in the US Today, wherever you look you will find cigarette advertisements. In the US alone, millions of people have become hooked on cigarettes despite the warning and health issues associated with cigarette smoking.... More

A brief history of Tobacco Smoking in the US Today, wherever you look you will find cigarette advertisements. In the US alone, millions of people have become hooked on cigarettes despite the warning and health issues associated with cigarette smoking. When you think about tobacco in the US, you will be amazed knowing that this is an ancient Indian ritual. Smoking tobacco was part of the Indian sacred religious ritual where they believed that their prayers will be carried to their gods in a puff of smoke. They do this ritual everyday to ensure that their prayers will be heard by the gods. In 1865, Tobacco Company started out in a humble beginning in a small farm in North Carolina after the Civil War. Washington Duke who is the owner of a small farm with only a few tobacco plants left which was destroyed during the war; he decided to capitalize on the remaining tobacco plant selling most of lands and then concentrated on planting more tobacco plants. This has soon become a thrivin Less