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[[File:Helmont Smokers.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|''Smokers in an Inn'' by [[Mattheus van Hellemont]] (1650s)]]

The '''history of smoking''' dates back to as early as 5000 BC in the [[Americas]] in [[Shamanism|shamanistic]] rituals. With the arrival of the Europeans in the 16th century, the consumption, cultivation, and trading of tobacco quickly spread. The modernization of farming equipment and manufacturing increased the availability of cigarettes following the [[Reconstruction era of the United States|reconstruction]] era in the United States. Mass production quickly expanded the scope of consumption, which grew until the scientific controversies of the 1960s, and condemnation in the 1980s.

[[Cannabis (drug)|Cannabis]] was common in Eurasia before the arrival of tobacco, and is known to have been used since at least 5000 BC. Cannabis was not commonly smoked directly until the advent of tobacco in the 16th century. Before this cannabis and numerous other plants were vaporized on hot rocks or charcoal, burned as incense or in vessels and censers and inhaled indirectly. Evidence of direct smoking before the 16th century is contentious, with pipes thought to have been used to smoke cannabis dated to the 10th to 12th centuries found in Southeastern Africa.

Previously eaten for its medicinal properties, [[opium]] smoking became widespread in China and the [[Western world|West]] during the 19th century. These led to the establishment of [[opium dens]]. In the latter half of the century, opium smoking became popular in the artistic communities of Europe. While opium dens continued to exist throughout the world, the trend among the Europeans abated during the First World War, and among the Chinese during the [[cultural revolution]].

More widespread cigarette usage as well as increased life expectancy during the 1920s made adverse health effects more noticeable. In 1929, [[Fritz Lickint]] of Dresden, Germany, published formal statistical evidence of a lung cancer–tobacco link, which subsequently led a strong anti-smoking movement in Nazi Germany. The subject remained largely taboo until 1954 with the [[British Doctors Study]], and in 1964 United States Surgeon General's report. Tobacco became stigmatized, which led to the largest civil settlement in United States history, the [[Tobacco Master Settlement]] (MSA), in 1998.

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