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Will the 21st century see the demise of the old friend from five centuries back the modestcigarette, gasper, fag, smoke and its other many names?
What is the number of people have done it; sneakto the back the school boiler room, the small hidden corner in the garden as well as other variousspots, for theslysmoke. This reviewer's handgoes up. I too happened to be a bigenthusiast of the advert played on radio and TV.
Yes, I'velit up a Lucky?; I hadmuch to light, flipped a box a-la the adverts. Am I looking in irritationfor the reason that these werekept from me; negative! that was yesterday.
Yesterday as far as the cigarette is concerned, started well, as said byarchives in South Americaandpictures, decorations and everything else all depicted the Maya and after that, Aztec priest among other bigwig, in the temple, puffing smoke away from the tube.
Invaders from Spain must have takenthis to be cool and the Conquistadores brought the impression back to Spain. In Spain, the tobacco was wrapped in maize andmuch later the paper was used.
In fact, the name 'cigarette' is Frenchmeaning small cigar.
If the Spanish thought smoking was fashionable, the French sawit as tres cool, adopted the belief and in the 1830s took the style home.
It was the Crimean War that changed the traditions of many a British smoker. The Tommy, apparently not flush with cash used to imitate their enemies from Russia and allies from Turkey in smoking rolled up tobacco in newspaper, not being able to obtain or afford cigarette papers.
Cigarettes were at war alongside us, all through to the extremity of the Vietnam conflict.
Cigarssurely have progressed. Filters, Cork tips, thick and thin papers to help burning, huge cigars, tiny ones, coloured ones, and those without tobacco ones. Currently, Now there is rumor of hiding them below the counter.
Whether you are or are not a smoker, there is no denying cigarettes have influenced or became part of our lives. We've definitely had a lot to light.
