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Who invented cigarettes?
1492, two crew members of Columbus, Jerez and Torres, discovered that Cuban natives lit dry cigarettes and smoked the smoke they emitted. Jerez tried smoking. He became the first smoker in Europe. So Columbus invented cigarettes.

15 18 years, Spanish explorers discovered that Aztecs and Mayans smoked grass with empty reeds, and the Spanish also learned to smoke, so the first cigarette was produced. 16 12 years, John Rolver planted the first acre of commercial tobacco in Virginia, USA.

The history of smoke

Cigarettes were first popular in Turkey, and locals like to roll tobacco in newspapers and smoke it. Later, during the Crimean War, British soldiers learned this smoking method from the soldiers of the Ottoman Empire at that time, and then spread it around. Cigarettes are a kind of tobacco products, which are dried and shredded, and then grow into barrel-shaped strips with a diameter of 120mm on paper rolls.

Although the chemical substances in cigarettes are mainly dry tobacco, many additives have been added after chemical treatment. The smoke from burning cigarettes contains about 4,000 chemicals, many of which are toxic, causing abnormal substances and thousands of carcinogens. Because of different brands, producing areas and production batches, the content of cigarettes will be different. There are toxic substances such as nicotine, acetone, aluminum, arsenic and butane in cigarettes.