Teens Smoke Trying to Lose Weight


At the time of puberty young boys and girls are worried about their look much more than people of other ages. Due to hormonal changes many of them gain some weight, so teenagers use various available means to lose it.

Young adults learn about weight-control methods mostly from their friends, so they start skipping meals substituting them with cigarettes. Smoking doesn’t help to lose weight as many of them think, but it does kill craving for food.
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History of Cigars


According to different dictionaries cigar is “a roll of tobacco leaves prepared for smoking” or it is “a rolled cylinder of tobacco that is wrapped in tobacco leaves or any substance that contains tobacco”.

The etymology of the word is not clear. Some scholars say it comes from Spanish “cigarro”, which in its turn originates from Mayan “siyar” – tobacco. The others say the word “cigar” is from Mayan “sikar” that means “smoking”.
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