Tobacco is a filthy
weed,
That from devil does
proceed,
It drains purse, it
burns clothes,
And makes a chimney of
the nose.
Tobacco is a dirty weed,
yet we want it,
It satisfies no normal
need, yet we like it,
It makes you thin, it
makes you lean,
It takes the hair right
out your bean.
People smoke cigar,
cigarette, pipe, bidi and the hookah.
People inhale through
nose snuff plain and the perfumed,
People chew plain and
perfumed powdered tobacco.
It is said that Raj
Kapoor had his finger tips and nails, which were
permanently, stained,
brown black on account of chain smoking.
Tobacco plants are grown
in field on lines of other normal plants. First
the tobacco seeds are
scattered on some garden soil where they are allowed
to grow up. Then
they are transplanted to big tobacco growing fields
at an even
distance. It is an annual crop. It is harvested mechanically
or manually. After
harvest tobacco leaves are stored for curing which
allows for slow
oxidation.
There are different
methods of curing
which are known
Flu-cured, Sun-cured, Air-cured and Dry-cured.
Apart from tobacco
leaves, entire tobacco plant is allowed to sun-dry
and shredded and crushed
into particles for use in fields as pesticides.
Tobacco leaves when
dried are shredded and crushed into tiny particles for
use in cigarettes,
pipes, cigars and used in chewing or made snuff powder etc.
Usage of tobacco in
cigar, pipe, cigarettes, and hookah came to be associated
with masculinity power
and iconic image coupled with Upper class.
It got vide popularity
through films.
The risks associated
with smoking includes diseases affecting the lungs
heart and can invite
cancer. It is reported that 2 billion people in the world
out of a population of 6
billion are addicted to taking it in different forms.
German scientists
identified link between smoking tobacco and cancer.
The poor and the unhappy
smoke cheaper varieties while the upper
Class enjoy Havana
Cigars or costly blended pipe tobacco or filter-tipped cigarettes.
Smoking is the most
common method of consuming tobacco. It is
often mixed with other
addictives so that the vapour when inhaled triggers
reaction in nerves to
heighten heart-rate, memory and alertness.
Nicotine does it. When
you smoke, nicotine goes into the blood-stream
and reaches the brain in
ten seconds. It also produces tar sticky black
lump made of hundreds of
chemicals and it can cause cancer.
Carbon monoxide is a
poisonous gas which is formed when you smoke
or light a cigarette. Studies
show that each cigarette you smoke, you
shorten your life by ten
minutes.
Bhutan is the only
country in the world to ban use of tobacco in Bhutan.
China is the world’s
largest tobacco market. China has thirty million
household growers of tobacco
plants in three million hectares of land.
Brazil India, Australia
besides China is major tobacco growing
Countries.
Cuba grows special
Havana brand tobacco in the hilly areas of Cuba.
It is used in making
world famous Havana Cigar. A cigar is a tightly
rolled bundle of dried
and fermented tobacco which is ignited so
that its smoke is drawn
in the smoker’s mouth. Cigars are not
to be inhaled and puffed
like cigarettes. Its high alkalinity in the
smoke can be irritating
to the lungs.
Hookah is a single or
multi steamed water-pipe which filters smoke
which passes through
water before reaching the smoker for inhalation.
Originally from India,
Hookah was so popular that its use was
popular in all
Muslim-populated countries.
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