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Smoking and the health of the nation Effects of smoking, cost to the nation Health service and achieving reduced prevalence Introduction Tobacco is a temperate crop that was first use by Indians in central and South America as part of religious ceremonies. It was discovered by Christopher Columbus and other European explorers of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries led to the development of the tobacco trade. Tobacco was first introduced to Europe from the new world at the end of the fifteenth century. Smoking rapidly spread as it was regarded as having medicinal value and by the seventeenth century smoking of tobacco was widespread through out Europe. It was not until the twentieth century though, that smoking became a mass habbit, and not until the second world war that the dangers of smoking were firmly established. Today there are 10 3/4 million cigarette smokers in England alone, 28% of the 16+ population. There are...

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