Long Term Effects of Smoking

Did you know that for every cigarette you smoke you can lose eleven minutes off your life? Smoking can not only leave you with long term affects you may not be able to get rid of but it will leave you poor and maybe dead. Mankind first came in touch with tobacco approximately eighteen thousand years ago, when migrant Asiatic people first intersected the Bering Strait and extended across the continents today known as the Americas, where tobacco is native (Gately ,2001). Mayan Indians of Mexico engraved a picture in stone showing the use of tobacco. The drawings dated back to somewhere between six hundred and nine hundred A.D. Tobacco was cultivated by American Indians before the Europeans came from England, Spain, France, and Italy to North America. Native Americans smoked tobacco through a cylinder for special religious and medical reasons. In 1612 the colonists of the first American colony in Jamestown, Virginia produced tobacco as a cash crop. Tobacco was the people’s man flow of money. Tobacco helped finance the revolution against England. George Washington also grew tobacco (Health Literacy Organization). Tobacco was said to be a cure- all, and was used to heal wounds, as well as a pain reliever. Tobacco could also heal a toothache (Vernillia R. Randall, 1999). The word tobacco come from a concave y –shaped pipe called as a tobaca or tobaga. Famers categorize the tobacco according to the way the leaves are dried. The four different types of tobacco is air- cured tobacco, fire- cured tobacco, flue-cured tobacco, sun- cured tobacco, and cigar- leaf tobacco. Air-cured tobacco contains to varieties light air cured and dark air cured. A lot of the cigarettes encompass 2 major types of light air cured tobacco which is barley and Maryland. Producers use dark air cured tobacco mainly for chewing tobacco and snuff. Fire -cured tobacco has unique smoky scent and taste. Producers use fire cured tobacco to make cigarettes, chewing tobacco, snuff, and strong