The First Post.... God why is it so difficult ??

Guys .. this is the first post which is going to be unread for a long time cz we all know that the later posts are the ones which are interesting ... so i have got an idea to make this an interesting one...
Let's start with a little history of the CIGARETTES (Big part of our life)....

                                                        

A reproduction of a carving from the temple at Palenque, Mexico, depicting a Mayan priest 

smoking from a smoking tube.

The earliest forms of cigarettes were largely made of dickies from their predecessor, the cigar. Cigarettes have been attested in Central America around the 9th century in the form of reeds and smoking tubes. The Maya, and later the Aztecs, smoked tobacco and various psychoactive drugs in religious rituals and frequently depicted priests and deities smoking on pottery and temple engravings. The cigarette and the cigar were the most common methods of smoking in the Caribbean, Mexico and Central and South America until recent times.

The South and Central American cigarette used various plant wrappers; when it was brought back to Spain, maize wrappers were introduced, and by the 17th century, fine paper. The resulting product was called papelate and is documented in Goya's paintings La Cometa, La Merienda en el Manzanares, and El juego de la pelota a pala (18th century).

By 1830, the cigarette had crossed into France, where it received the name cigarette; and in 1845, the French state tobacco monopoly began manufacturing them.

Production jumped markedly when a cigarette-making machine was developed in the 1880s byJames Albert Bonsack that vastly increased the productivity of cigarette companies, who went from making approximately 40,000 hand-rolled cigarettes daily to around 4 million.

In the English-speaking world, the use of tobacco in cigarette form became increasingly popular during and after the Crimean War, when British soldiers began emulating their Ottoman Turkishcomrades and Russian enemies, who had begun rolling and smoking tobacco in strips of old newspaper for lack of proper cigar-rolling leaf.^[15] This was helped by the development of tobaccos that are suitable for cigarette use, and by the development of the Egyptian cigarette export industry.................

BORING was it ??? it could be for some of the people but this shows that those who smoke are a legacy !!!

But over the next posts you will get to know many facts,tricks,secrets which others have got hidden from you !!!