When it was first introduced into the market, the advertisers promoted their products through celebrity endorsements with Sir Walter Raleigh and Philip of Spain working tirelessly to popularise smoking and enhance their personal profits. Although many attempts were made to ban the use of tobacco in various countries around the world, we had to wait until the last century for real progress to be made. The decision whether to use any drug is always a balancing of the benefits against the costs.

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