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smoking and society  

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  • TOBACCO HAS BEEN smoked and chewed since Mayan times, but it was not until the late 19th century that the modern cigarette was invented. The cigarette allows the drug nicotine to be rapidly inhaled through the lungs and delivered to the brain. [Source: Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society; Smoking and Society]

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