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wun an easy way 10 uo n. The other half say they wouldn’t think of stopping. The first cigarette was improvised in 1832 by a French artillery-man without a pipe. He emptied a small tube of gunpowder, filled it with pipe tobacco, struck a match to it, inhaled tentatively, and a pleasure and problem for generations was born.
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Tobacco was native only to the New World, and the first hooked on it were American Indians, who Columbus found not only puffed it in pipes but rolled it into a sort of cigar.
One of the world’s greatest unlearned lessons may have been in the 1528 eyewitness report of one Cabeza de Vaca, who told of meeting Indians who “intoxicate themselves with smoke and they give whatever they possess for it.”
What smokers once gave for it was their lives in Russia, Persia, and India where using tobacco was a fatal offense. Jn Turkey, Murad IV daily freed a dozen or so smokers from their habits—and their heads.
Of the dozens of proved ways to conquer the ad diction, the ultimate method is Edith Zittler’s: “The only way to stop smoking is to just stop—no ifs, ands, or butts.”
At the same time, G. Norman Collie blew a real smoke ring when he observed: “There is a great deal to be said for a man who quits smoking, and he generally says it without letup.”
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