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title: "History of Cigarette"  
description: "A brief explanation about the origin of Cigarette and its interesting facts"  
author: "Anjita D."  
published: 2023-11-20  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/3301/history-of-cigarette  
category: "education, history"  
tags: ["Cigarette", "facts", "general knowledge"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# History of Cigarette

![History of Cigarette](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/29a3d2ee-e466-4d8c-a98c-6f98f2fce070/images/fa8fe772-c4e9-45f3-aad4-3c562bd7fa83.jpeg) ![History of Cigarette](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/29a3d2ee-e466-4d8c-a98c-6f98f2fce070/images/df482b4a-9cf2-464b-9f2d-9f3af6717d12.jpeg) Tobacco, a plant of the Nicotiana genus, has been around 6000 - 3000 BC and was originally only found in the Americas. ![History of Cigarette](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/29a3d2ee-e466-4d8c-a98c-6f98f2fce070/images/344cdb46-f757-4f36-bba8-5d8211f4d253.jpeg) It was used in a variety of ways by indigenous peoples, including smoking, chewing, snuffing and religious rituals. ![History of Cigarette](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/29a3d2ee-e466-4d8c-a98c-6f98f2fce070/images/21b1c24f-08de-4938-8676-361b5a0efb94.jpeg) Christopher Columbus found tobacco on his New World journey in 1492, and his crew was impressed by it, bringing it back to Europe and popularising it. ![History of Cigarette](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/29a3d2ee-e466-4d8c-a98c-6f98f2fce070/images/203265ba-73ba-4f34-9816-f8d467ef61ba.jpeg) In the 19th century, it revolutionised the tobacco industry by allowing mass production, making cigarettes cheaper and more accessible. ![History of Cigarette](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/29a3d2ee-e466-4d8c-a98c-6f98f2fce070/images/e3919e63-5893-4755-ba74-9460c5597ad4.jpeg) In the mid-twentieth century, studies demonstrated that smoking was damaging to human health, raising public awareness and reducing cigarette usage.

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