This day s observance is held each year under various themes. The youth in our society today consider the use of tobacco as one of the mere pleasures of life.
Smoking is believed to have started with cocoa leaves somewhere in Peru and in Latin America.
It was later that people, in search of a stronger enhancement, diverted to the use of tobacco. After having sailed to the New World in 1492, Christopher Columbus was reported to have taken some tobacco seeds back to Europe, where farmers began to grow the plant for use as a medicine that helped people relax. In 1560, a French diplomat named Jean Nicot from whom tobacco receives its botanical name, Nicotania introduced the use of tobacco in France. At that time, China was the leading nation in tobacco production, followed by the United States, India, Brazil and then Soviet Union. Most of this income comes from domestic sales.