In the beginning of the 20th century, doctors advised pregnant women to smoke in order not to gain weight;

In 1588, Thomas Harriet a resident of Virginia began to advocate daily smoking of tobacco as a way to general improvement of the organism. Unfortunately, he soon died of cancer;

Tobacco bush comes from the American continent and belongs to the family of potato and pepper;

Smokers suffer from chronic bronchitis 5-7 times more than non-smokers do. Chronic bronchitis is subsequently complicated by emphysema and pneumosclerosis: diseases that substantially disrupt the function of lungs;

In the world, there are 120 ways of treating tobacco addiction (only about 40 of them are used in practice);

$5300 were spent in an Internet auction for a cigarette butt smoked in the last seconds before a ban on smoking in public places came into force in New Zealand;

In 1571, a Spanish doctor Nicolas Mondares wrote a book about the healing plants of the New World. He wrote that tobacco could cure 36 diseases;

The main reason for high prevalence of smoking is the temporarily hidden destructive effect of smoking, which creates the impression that it is externally harmless;

Tobacco and tobacco smoke contain more than 3 thousand chemical compounds, some being oncogenous, which means they are capable of damaging the genetic material of cells and cause the growth of a cancer tumor;

10% of smokers are being taken ill with and subsequently die from malignant tumors. (and 20% of those who smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day);

In 1923, the Camel cigarette brand was controlling about 45% of the U.S. market. Philip Morris cigarette brand started to advance with the Marlboro cigarettes as a with female brand under the slogan “Mild as May”;

In 1939, the American Tobacco Company presented its new brand “Pall Mall”, which placed the company in the first position among American tobacco companies;

Smoking increases significantly the effect of human exposure to other harmful factors. For example, the risk of mouth cancer, larynx and oesophagus tumors increases 2-3 times for non-smokers who regularly consume alcohol. 9 times more risk active smokers who also consume the same quantity of alcohol;

Smokers suffer from heart attacks 2-8 times more than non-smokers do. Moreover, smokers are put at risk of dying from cardio ischemia against the seemingly normal state of health 3-4 times more than non-smokers;

95% of smokers immediately quit smoking having survived a heart attack. The patients are neither lectured nor persuaded: they take the decision themselves;

Great Britain prohibited TV advertisements of tobacco products in1965.

After a long competition with “Coca Cola”, the Marlboro trademark is recognized as the most expensive brand among day-to-day goods in the 80s and 90s. Its estimated cost is about 30 billion dollars.