- Kentucky is the nation’s leading tobacco grower.
- The biggest percentage of the world’s tobacco is grown in China.
- Large amounts of nicotine was once given to elephants in order to put them to sleep via animal dart guns.
- The Centers for Disease Control’s list of the World’s Most addictive substances places is at the top of the list.
- Heroin placed 5th.
- Forbidden to advertise on television, cigarette companies rent huge signs in sport stadiums.
- Humphrey Bogart, seen smoking in Casablanca, smoked heavily in real life as well. He died of lung cancer at the age of 57.
- In 1953, the New England Journal of Medicine announced that the evidence linking smoking and lung cancer was “so strong as to be considered proof within the everyday meaning of the word.”
- Nearly some 90 percent of nonsmokers have some residues of cigarette smoke in their blood.
- The United States produces several tons of tobacco each year. Only China produces more.
- About three quarters of the American Tobacco market is controlled by two companies, Philip Morris and RJR Nabisco (formerly R.J. Reynolds).
- Tobacco-brand appearances have been seen in many adolescent and family movies. These include Ghostbusters II, Home Alone 2, Honey I shrunk the Kids, Kindergarten Cop, men in Black and The Nutty Professor.
- Tobacco is a poisonous plant. The poison in it is nicotine. Tobacco plants contain nicotine as a natural defense, to keep bugs from eating their leaves.
- Workers on Tobacco Farms sometimes suffer nicotine poisoning when they absorb the chemical through their skin.
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