Smoking Smoking is the combustion of a substance, usually plant material, and the inhalation of resulting fumes
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The first documented tax was in ancient Egypt around 3000 B.C., where, among other things, an excise tax was levied on oil and beer.[7] Thousands of years later, in his famous book An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations , Adam Smith gave favorable mention to excise taxation: Sugar, rum, and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which [have]become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.[8] This quote may read like a suggestion to utilize excise taxes to generate general revenue, and Adam Smith is often invoked to argue that exact point, but it is not that simple
Therefore, smoking may worsen or increase the risk of various conditions, such as peptic ulcers, Crohns disease, and cancers of the digestive tract