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Submitted by Haydesigner in ... on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 2:00am. ::

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called on governments to ban all tobacco advertising to help prevent young people taking up the habit.


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Submitted by Reggie on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 12:14pm.

Big tobacco stutters in frustration while pointing at an omnipresent fleshy beer ad

1492-10-12: Columbus Discovers Tobacco; "Certain Dried Leaves" Are Received as Gifts, and Thrown Away.

On this bright morning Columbus and his men set foot on the New World for the first time, landing on the beach of San Salvador Island or Samana Cay in the Bahamas, or Gran Turk Island. The indigenous Arawaks, possibly thinking the strange visitors divine, offer gifts. Columbus wrote in his journal,

the natives brought fruit, wooden spears, and certain dried leaves which gave off a distinct fragrance. As each item seemed much-prized by the natives; Columbus accepted the gifts and ordered them brought back to the ship. The fruit was eaten; the pungent "dried leaves" were thrown away.


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