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Psychological Effects: Smokers often consider lighting up a major reliever of stress, anxiety and depression

By the 1940s they became dominant over other types of tobacco (pipes, cigars, chewing tobacco)

Yet today, a fifth of people in China still smoke Tobacco arrived in China during the Ming dynastys Jiajing era (1522-1566) from the Philippines, then a colony of the Spaniards, who were the first Europeans to ship and cultivate tobacco outside the Americas

This dependence drives sustained exposure to nicotines harmful cardiovascular effects and makes cessation more difficult, prolonging the period of elevated risk

As for lung cancer, a few are cured today