The initial target audience of Marlboro, world's most famous cigarette brand, was women.
The first cigarette was invented in 1832 by Egyptian artilleryman.
Rolling your own cigarettes is cheaper than buying them ready-made.
Smoking was first banned somewhat 400 years ago.
The habit of smoking was spread around the world by sailors.
In the 1960s Santa Claus used to advertise Lucky Strikes.
There's a Hollywood movie called Thank You for Smoking
There are some countries where Duty Free cigarettes are twice cheaper than in stores
More people smoke in emerging economies than in developed ones.
Many Hollywood actors are smokers, but many are trying to quit.
Smoking used to be a sign of manhood.
The hugely popular TV show Mad Man is sometimes looks like one long cigarettes commercial.
Nowadays, only “bad guys” smoke on big and small screen.
Despite smoking bans regulated in many countries in the world, duty free stores keep selling tax free cigarettes to customers.
Many famous people have a lot to say about smoking:
Jay Leno - For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.
Rudyard Kipling, The Betrothed - A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
Michelle Pfeiffer - I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker.... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.
James I of England, A Counterblaste to Tobacco, 1604 - A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Billy Connolly - Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
Rolling paper is usually made of wood pulp, hemp, flax or rice.
Cigarette filter is made of 95% cellulose acetate.
Tobacco is not the only thing that can be rolled into a rolling paper...
Lucky Strike used to have a green pack
