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The History of Cigarettes
Cigarettes are responsible for most of like the things that we consider modern world. In order to get people to smoke, the tobacco industry had to invent modern civilizations. We don't know exactly when the first human beings started smoking or otherwise ingesting tobacco for the first time. But archaeologists can confirm that by at latest the first century BC, the Maya people of Central America were using tobacco as a part of their religious rituals.