The history of tobacco being smoked goes back thousands of years, with the first ever historically recorded case of smoking being from around the first century BC
The strength level was in the center of mild to medium
In red, you see the rise and fall of lung cancer deaths, which you can read off the axis on the right
You can read some tobacco-related adverse experience reports on the Tobacco Product Problem Reports page
[PubMed: 15805342] Moskowitz WB, Mosteller M, Schieken RM, Bossano R, Hewitt JK, Bodurtha JN, Segrest JP
The chapter examines recent trends in the epidemiology of smoking over the past four decades, takes a close look at the characteristics of smokers and those who have quit smoking, and discusses variations in the prevalence rate of smoking by sociodemographic characteristics and state of residence