A cigarette (French "small cigar", from cigar + -ette) is a product consumed through smoking and manufactured out of cured and finely cut tobacco leaves and reconstituted tobacco, often combined with other additives,http://www.jeffreywigand.com/WHOFinal.pdf Wigand, MA. ADDITIVES, CIGARETTE DESIGN and TOBACCO PRODUCT REGULATION, A REPORT TO: WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, TOBACCO FREE INITIATIVE, TOBACCO PRODUCT REGULATION GROUP, KOBE, JAPAN, 28 JUNE-2 JULY 2006 then rolled or stuffed into a paper-wrapped cylinder (generally less than 120 mm in length and 10 mm in diameter). The cigarette is ignited at one end and allowed to smoulder for the purpose of inhalation of its smoke from the other (usually filtered) end, which is inserted in the mouth. They are sometimes smoked with a cigarette holder. The term cigarette, as commonly used, refers to a tobacco cigarette but can apply to similar devices containing other herbs, such as cannabis.
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A cigarette (French "small cigar", from cigar + -ette) is a product consumed through smoking and manufactured out of cured and finely cut tobacco leaves and reconstituted tobacco, often combined with other additives,http://www.jeffreywigand.com/WHOFinal.pdf Wigand, MA. ADDITIVES, CIGARETTE DESIGN and TOBACCO PRODUCT REGULATION, A REPORT TO: WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, TOBACCO FREE INITIATIVE, TOBACCO PRODUCT REGULATION GROUP, KOBE, JAPAN, 28 JUNE-2 JULY 2006 then rolled or stuffed into a paper-wrapped cylinder (generally less than 120 mm in length and 10 mm in diameter). The cigarette is ignited at one end and allowed to smoulder for the purpose of inhalation of its smoke from the other (usually filtered) end, which is inserted in the mouth. They are sometimes smoked with a cigarette holder. The term cigarette, as commonly used, refers to a tobacco cigarette but can apply to similar devices containing other herbs, such as cannabis.
Nicotine, the primary psychoactive chemical in tobacco, is addictive. Cigarette use has also been shown to cause multiple types of cancer, heart disease, respiratory disease, circulatory disease, birth defects (which include mental and physical disability) and emphysema. List of health effects by CDC On average, each cigarette smoked shortens lifespan by 11 minutes.
Rates of cigarette smoking vary widely. While rates of smoking have leveled off or declined in the developed world, they continue to rise in the undeveloped world. [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5644a2.htm#fig Cigarette Smoking Among Adults - United States, 2006 ][http://www.wpro.who.int/media_centre/fact_sheets/fs_20020528.htm WHO/WPRO-Smoking Statistics ]
A cigarette is distinguished from a cigar by its smaller size, use of processed leaf, and white paper wrapping. Cigars are typically composed entirely of whole-leaf tobacco.
Cigarettes are the most frequent source of fires in private homes and European Union wishes to ban in 2011 cigarettes that are not fire-safe.
History
The earliest forms of cigarettes have been attested in Central America around the 9th century in the form of reeds and smoking tubes. The Maya, and later the Aztecs, smoked tobacco and various psychoactive drugs in religious rituals and frequently depicted priests and deities smoking on pottery and temple engravings. The cigarette, and the cigar, were the most common method of smoking in the Caribbean, Mexico and Central and South America until recent times.
