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1. In its original state, tobacco is native only to this place.
2. In 1493 Rodrigo de Jerez became the first European to smoke. In Cuba, he took a puff of a New World cigar. Rodrigo was with which fellow explorer?
3. It isn't known how and why aboriginal Americans started smoking, but tobacco is a sacred plant for Native Americans, still used widely in prayer and ceremony. The very first tobacco smokers were likely these people.
4. This sea captain of the 1560's probably brought the first tobacco to England.
5. Around 1604 King James I published 'A Counterblast to Tobacco'. He banned tobacco in his alehouses, and described it as this.
6. Despite bans and blasts against it, smoking became popular in Europe. About 1832 someone started rolling tobacco into cigarettes. It may have been Egyptian soldiers, or the French, Russians or Spanish. We know there were rolled cigarettes because we found these, dated to the 17th century.
7. Here's a surprising fact. The well-respected medical journal "The Lancet" first discussed concerns about the negative effect of smoking on health in what year?
8. In 1950 the "British Medical Journal" published an article on the link between lung cancer and smoking. What happened between 1900 and 1950 that made smoking gain huge popularity, despite medical links to disease?
9. This manly cigarette brand, linked by advertising to the magic of Hollywood cowboy heroes, was first marketed to women, in the early 1920s.
10. In 1964 the U.S. Surgeon General, Luther Terry, announced that smoking causes lung cancer. This was soon followed by a ban on TV ads for cigarettes in the UK, and what further step in the U.S.?
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