15 Facts About Smoking

Smoking is a practice in which a substance is burned and the resulting smoke is typically breathed in to be tasted and absorbed into the bloodstream.

Smoking is primarily practised as a route of administration for recreational drug use because the combustion of the dried plant leaves vaporizes and delivers active substances into the lungs where they are rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream and reach bodily tissue.

Smoking is one of the most common forms of recreational drug use.

Smoking has negative health effects, because smoke inhalation inherently poses challenges to various physiologic processes such as respiration.

Smoking tobacco is among the leading causes of many diseases such as lung cancer, heart attack, COPD, erectile dysfunction, and birth defects.

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Smoking caused over five million deaths a year from 1990 to 2015.

Smoking can be dated to as early as 5000 BCE, and has been recorded in many different cultures across the world.

Smoking, especially after the introduction of tobacco, was an essential component of Muslim society and culture and became integrated with important traditions such as weddings, funerals and was expressed in architecture, clothing, literature and poetry.

Smoking is a risk factor strongly associated with periodontitis and tooth loss.

Smoking has been associated with oral conditions including dental caries, dental implant failures, premalignant lesions, and cancer.

Smoking has elements of risk-taking and rebellion, which often appeal to young people.

Smoking, primarily of tobacco, is an activity that is practiced by some 1.

Smoking has been accepted into culture, in various art forms, and has developed many distinct, and often conflicting or mutually exclusive, meanings depending on time, place and the practitioners of smoking.

Smoking represented pleasure, transience and the briefness of earthly life as it, quite literally, went up in smoke.

Smoking was associated with representations of both the sense of smell and that of taste.