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It has been known for decades now that cigarette smoking is very dangerous not only to the smoker, but to others around them, in the form of secondhand smoke.

Since the 1970′s it has been known that cigarette smoking has been linked to cancer and heart disease. It was during that time that the then surgeon general of the United States, C. Everett Koop, advocated the use of warning labels on cigarette packages.

This warning on the side panel of the cigarette packages, states that smoking cigarettes is dangerous to an unborn child, and can cause lung cancer and heart Read the rest of this entry »

For many years, cigarette ads were a staple of television advertising. That is long gone.

As the dangers of tobacco smoking were slowly discovered and revealed, the television networks began to feel that the cigarette ads were not the type of ads they wanted to sponsor their programming. With most people starting to smoke cigarettes while still in their teen years, television did not want to condone a dangerous, almost always addictive behavior, and rightly Read the rest of this entry »

Smokers have developed a persecution complex as many state governments have turned to cigarette taxes as a way to raise revenues. They have found out that if they raise the taxes on cigarettes too high, people will find aways around them. When people need a nicotine fix, they will find any number of ways to get one. The most common way of getting around the excessive cigarette taxes is to smoke cigarillos or for people to roll their own cigarettes. The Read the rest of this entry »