Tobacco

      Tobacco-Smoking is a very common habit in most countries. In European people smoke pipes, cigars, cigarettes . Some People Think that tobacco-smoking is a bad and Unhealthy habit. No doubt heavy smoking does harm, and any smoking is bad for children.
      Tobacco was unknown in Europe before the time of the English Queen Elizabeth. When Columbus found America , he saw the natives smoking the dried leaves of the tobacco plant. But it was sir Walter Raleigh nearly a hundred years later, who brought tobacco from the west indies to England, In the days of Queen Elizabeth. There is a famous story of how Raleigh's servant, seeing his master smoking for the first time , thought he was on a fire, and threw a bucket of water over him to put fire out.
     The tobacco people smoke is the dried leaves of the tobacco plant; This plant is grown in many warm countries, such as parts of america, the west Indies , India, the East Indies, and Japan. The green leaves are dried in the sun, treated with chemicals and cut by machines. Different kind of tobacco leaves are mixed together to make different flavors. In older days in England people took tobacco in the form of stuff, which is tobacco ground in to a fine powder. This was sniffed up into the nose to make the person sneeze.
   Tobacco cannot be grown in England, for the climate is 100 cold; but row tobacco is brought to England in large quantities, and manufactured there. In India it is both grown and manufacture.

However Tobacco-smoking causes cancers and heart attacks. So if you are a smoker try to reduce the amount of  cigarettes you take a day. Its good for your health and also for your economy.