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Smoking is the act of inhaling and exhaling the fumes of burning plant material. A variety of plant materials are smoked, including marijuana and hashish, but the act is most commonly associated with tobacco as smoked in a cigarette, cigar, or pipe. Tobacco contains nicotine, which is addictive and can have both stimulating and tranquilizing effects. The smoking of tobacco, long practiced by American Indians, was introduced to Europe by Christopher Columbus and other explorers. Smoking soon spread to other areas and today is widely practiced around the world despite medical, social, and religious arguments against it. My focus will be on the Massachusetts Ban on Smoking Chapter 270: Section 22. Smoking in public places. This paper will then link the American Lung Association and their participation in the fight against smoking.

The dawn of the 20th century was the golden age of the cigarette, tobacco products were cigars, pipe tobacco, and chewing tobacco. The mass production......

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