About 10 million cigarettes are sold every minute.
Nonsmokers dream more at night than smokers do.
Smokers need to ingest 40 percent more vitamin C than nonsmokers just to stay even.
Each puff of smoke inhaled from a cigarette contains 4 billion particles of dust.
Christopher Columbus introduced the smoking of tobacco to Europe after discovering the “”strange leaves”” on the island of Cuba.
Nicotine is named for Jean Nicot de Villemain, France’s ambassador to Portugal, who wrote of tobacco’s medicinal properties, describing it as a panacea.
According to the American Heart Association, an estimated 47 million Americans smoke: 25 million men and 24 million women.
