If someone maintains that our ancestors were tobacco smokers too, he is actually quite mistaken. The widespread habit of smoking is not very old. True, we know that the North American Indians used to smoke and so did the people who lived where tobacco was grown, on the various Pacific islands, but tobacco was brought to other countries only through maritime traffic. Our ancestors in the West did not know the tobacco plant, and it is amazing how fast it spread over the globe and got a hold on people, making them think that they could not live without smoking. Somehow the idea developed that you are not ‘with it’ or lack credibility if you do not indulge in smoking. It is not surprising that Dr A. H. Roffo, a university professor, wrote: ‘I consider tobacco a narcotic such as cocaine, morphine, opium and other drugs. In my opinion, tobacco is much more dangerous, for the number of people who are addicted to cocaine, morphine, etc., is ridiculously small in comparison to the ever-growing number of tobacco users. Besides, cocaine and morphine addicts, more often than not, are sick people, while tobacco, for the most part, attracts healthy young people.’ Although narcotics are much more dangerous than tobacco, the latter is a far greater menace to our health because it has become so widespread. Since the 1970s the proportion of women smoking has grown steadily, but the female body is even more sensitive to such poisons, posing great risks and producing disastrous consequences during pregnancy and lactation.
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