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Cigarettes are the most widely-spread goods sold in the world - each year they are sold for a sum of about a billion dollars. The production Revenue is totally nearly $ 400 billion, making the industry one of the most profitable in the world.
The nicotine content in cigarettes of the world's major brands is increasing, despite their assurances of being ?ease?, ?natural?, etc. The Harvard University staff together with the Massachusetts Department of Health investigated that between 1997 and 2005, the content of nicotine in cigarettes of the brands like Camel, Newport and Doral increased on average by 11 percent.


In 1970, the President Nixon signed the law, which banned cigarette advertising on television, but manufacturers were required to place a warning on the danger of smoking on the packs. The last advertising spot was shown in the New Year's Eve from 1970 to 1971 - this was done so that the owners of television networks had to make the last big piece of bucks during the New Year soccer championship broadcast.
American tobacco corporations earn more money by selling their products to other countries than in the domestic market.
Again, the American brands such as Marlboro, Kool, Camel and Kent comprise 70% of the world tobacco market.
Cigarettes contain arsenic, formaldehyde, lead, hydrocyanic acid, nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, ammonia and several dozen of ?useful? substances.
In 50-s of the last century Kent cigarettes contained a particular type of asbestos, which is quite dangerous for the lung substance.
To make cigarettes with special ?flavor?, urea, a major component of urine, is often added.


?Cork Tip? (?cork? filter) was invented by a Hungarian inventor Boris Aivaz, who feigned the process of manufacturing corrugated filter paper. In subsequent years, many manufacturers claim that they use various new technologies and materials in the cigarette filters manufacture, but in reality the vast majority of them used the Hungarian invention, little bit or not modified.


In most countries the minimum age of a person who is allowed to buy tobacco products increased from 16 to 18 years old. In Japan, this age is 20 years old.
Despite the fact that the sale of cigarettes to minors is a crime, actual smoking is not illegal at any age.


?Smoking bans? practice becomes increasingly popular in the world, which means a ban on smoking in public places. Scientists have calculated that smoking, people live 14 years less. This does not mean that smokers die young - many live to venerable age.
The majority of smokers acquire the habit during adolescence, when it is banned to buy cigarettes by themselves, but smoking is perceived by them as a sign of ?being adult ?, along with shaving, carrying knives, alcohol, drugs and sexual experiences.
Smoker often states that in the process of smoking, he feels confident, relaxation, attentiveness, concentration and other sensations. In fact, smoking causes those precisely effects that the person wants to feel.


Cigarettes - the most powerful placebo (a medicine, the effect of which - in the belief) that leads to a strong and long-term dependency.
There are some materials and technological processes (of course, proprietary and normally closed), which increase the effect of nicotine on several occasions, compared with just smoking tobacco leaf.


To improve the taste, smell of cigarettes there can be added cloves, orange oil, apricot pits, lemon oil, Lavender oil, fennel, cocoa, carrot extract, nutmeg, myrrh, beet juice, oak leaves, rum, vinegar, and vanillin.
A presentation of a cigarette which is safe for others, according to the developers, took place in Belgium.


?Supersmoker? Company offers an ?alternative? multiple cigarette with low nicotine content for heavy smokers. New product was developed by Belgian scientists, in cooperation with European experts, then was tested in the laboratory of the Catholic University of the Belgian city Leuven, wrote NEWSru.
Special liquid substitutes tobacco in an unusual cigarette, which is filled in 4 replaceable mouthpieces, which are composed in the set of ?magic cigarettes?. By replacing them smoker can regulate the nicotine concentration himself. The exhaled ?fumes? do not contain carcinogenic substances and are harmless to others as well.



Scientists hope that new funds would be better in the fight against nicotine addiction. The proportion of smokers in the population of Belgium is 28%, according to data from the Foundation of cancer fighting. And half of them claim that would like to give up smoking.