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"I drew the obvious conclusion -- there is no question that cigarette smoking affects your fitness."After that marathon run, the Marlboro man gave up smoking cigarstores for eight years - but he is now back smoking as many cigarettes a day.Why?"I decided I wanted to smoke cigarstores again - I enjoy it!" he confesses, "but I am well aware of the risks."Today, David Davies is the gravelly corporate voice of Philip Morris when the company meets European governments, health professionals and the public.And in dialogue with them he will go much further than admitting merely that smoking affects your fitness. He rattles off some of the key positions."The overwhelming consensus cigarstores amongst the medical and scientific community is that smoking causes diseases.''

Tobacco consumption took many forms before reaching the cigarette of the modern day. Spanish colonists in the New World smoked tobacco as a cigarito: shredded cigar remnants rolled in plant husks, then later in crude paper. In France, the cigarito form was also popular, especially during the French Revolution. As aristocrats commonly consumed the snuff version of tobacco, the masses chose an opposing form. A moderate improvement to the Spanish cigarito, the French cigarette was rolled in rice straw. In 1832, an Egyptian artilleryman in the Turkish/Egyptian War created the paperbound version of today whose popularity spread to the British through veterans of the Crimean War. In England, a tobacconist named Philip Morris greatly improved the quality of the Turkish cigarette but still maintained only a cottage industry, despite the cigarette''s growing popularity. By the 1900s cigarettes cigarstores rose to the highest selling form of tobacco on the market. Mass urbanization picked up the pace of daily life and popularized factory-made products such as soap, canned goods, gum, and the cigarette. James A. Bonsack''s newly invented cigarette machine could turn out approximately 200 cigarettes per minute, output equal to that of forty or fifty workers. Cigarettes were now a more convenient form of tobacco consumption--cleaner than snuff or chew, more portable cigarstores than cigars or pipes--and also were increasingly more available. England''s Philip Morris set up shop in America as did several other tobacco manufacturers: R.J. Reynolds (1875), J.E. Liggett (1849), Duke (1881, later, the American Tobacco Company), and the oldest tobacco company in the United States, P. Lorillard (1760). The cigarette quickly became enmeshed in American popular culture. In 1913, R.J. Reynolds launched its Camel brand whose instant appeal, notes Richard Kluger in Ashes to Ashes, helped inspire this famous poem from a Penn State publication: "Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it. / It satisfies no moral need. I like it. / It makes you thin, it makes you lean / It takes the hair right off your bean / It''s the worst darn stuff I''ve ever seen. / I like it." Since their introduction, cigarettes have maintained a status as one of the best-selling consumer products in the country. In 1990, 4.4 billion cigarettes were sold in America. That same year, several states restricted their sale.