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With the smoking, it generally points at absorbing a cigarette.
I set fire to the thing which processed a plant after processes such as drying / the fermentation and call an act to absorb the smoke with smoking.
Smoking such as a cigarette / a stimulant / a drug / the cannabis is accomplished, but describe the smoking of the cigarette mainly here.

Left the time / the area of the tenth century with Maya civilization B.C. in the origin of the cigarette smoking, and a custom of the smoking spread out among Native Americans for a long time.
It spread in the Europe with the arrival of the Great Navigation Age and strong dependence formation action was combined that it was believed that there was various efficacy and spread out in the whole world at the speed that was exceptional for those days in 15-16 centuries called 100 years.
Therefore "tobacco" "tabaco" and an about the same name are on in the world.
In the Europe Asian region, it is said that there were smoking customs such as the cannabis, but, as for the origin, is not clear.
Various smoking methods are devised, and a cigar, pipes spread, and it is the cigarette which the smoking method most popular worldwide is cheap today, and is simple (a cigarette).
There is the world smoking population of the beginning in a tendency to increase with about 1,300,000,000 a little in the 21st century, but the most are demand by the developing country and decrease in the main area that I did including a main developed nation.

The smoking is a whole body disease called "the smoking disease" (a dependency + smoking-related disease) from a medical point of view, and the smoker is considered to be "a patient".
The World Health Organization announces the death toll by the disease to assume smoking a cause more than about 5000000 estimates in a year in the world.

On the other hand, there is the criticism from a cigarette industry worker for the research such as such World Health Organization, too.

As for the statistical numbers led to the excessive antismoking campaign, there is the criticism that there is it when I operate data arbitrarily among other things while taking the form of the data extraction method such as the random sampling.

By the late years when the hazardous property of the smoking custom became clear, the smoking rate in Europe and America almost falls by a society and administrative enlightenment activity, and the exercise of separation of facilities for smokers and nonsmokers or the passive smoking prevention is seen socially.
More than 140 countries carry out regulation to a cigarette advertisement / the sale aimed for reduction of the cigarette consumption now.