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1925 Philip Morris starts marketing to women, tripling the number of female smokers in just 10 years
The tobacco industry has a strong hand of control throughout the tobacco cycle from seed to sale, but the devastation it causes is ultimately borne by governments, tobacco workers, users and their families, creating a seemingly endless cycle of poverty, destruction and death. South Hill, Virginia, USA (pictured above) After the English colonised Jamestown in 1607, John Rolfe began planting seeds of a popular Spanish variety of tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum , and soon became the first North American farmer to cultivate and export tobacco breaking the previous Spanish monopoly
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Circ Res 86(2):E36E41 Higman DJ et al (1996) Smoking impairs the activity of endothelial nitric oxide synthase in saphenous vein