Effects of Smoking Cigarettes Essay -- Nicotine Cigarettes Tobacco

The History of baccy In 3000 B.C the Ancient Egyptians burnt sweet herbs and frankincense when sacrificing to their gods. This was the beginning of consume. whence in the beginning of the Christian era peck was inhaled through the burn fur of a hare, the diagnoses for epilepsy was the inhalation of smoke from a goats horn and for consumption, smoke inhaled through a reed of dried dung of an ox. Somewhere in the United States was believed to be the birthplace of tobacco, a plant of the genus Nicotiana. How and when it was discovered is hidden (Huron Indian myth has it that in ancient times, when the land was barren and the populate were starving, the Great Spirit sent forth a woman to spell humanity. As she travelled over the universe, everywhere her right hand moved(p) the soil, there grew potatoes. And everywhere her left hand touched the soil, there grew corn. And when the world was rich and fertile, she sat down and rested. When she arose, there grew tobacco). What is ce rtain is that tobacco smoking was practised among the early Mayas, probably in the district of Tabasco, Mexico, as segmentation of their religious ceremonies. The Mayans had no paper to wrap their tobacco in so they wrapped it in palm leaves or cornhusks, and stuffed it into reeds or bamboo. On the other hand they also smoked rolled tobacco leaves as arrant(a) cigars. Indians further north made pipes, some with a bowl and m break throughhpiece, others molded like a Y, and placed the forked ends into their nostrils. They also blended their tobacco with other herbs and plants to vary the flavour. In South America, the Aztecs smoked and took snuff. Elsewhere in the American continent, tobacco was chewed, eaten, drunk as an in... ...f cigarettes a day. If you want to identify out how much an average smoker pays for cigarettes per annum you do this 4.33 (a mobet of cigarettes) 7 (days per week) = 30.31 (amount paid for cigarettes a week) 30.31 (amount paid for cigarettes a week) 52 (weeks per year) = 1576.12 (amount paid for cigarettes a year) So an average smoker pays approximately 1576.12 a year, so if you fulfill up smoking you are much than likely to spend more than 1500 a year in cigarettes. In the U.K the price of a pack of 20 premium brand cigarettes currently costs 4.33, of which 3.45 (80%) is tax. Thus out of the 1576.12 spent a year by a smoker 80% is taken by the Government, which is 1260.90. This is the main reason why the Government doesn?t ban smoking, because they are making 1260.90 per smoker per year in the U.K.