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/^t/Smokers have become a prey for various health organizaions and non-smokers in the last few years. In the name of the slogan "Smoking offends non-smakers" People who smoke are driven out of public buildings, restaurants, railway stations etc. No one seems to care that smoking is an addiction and smokers should be treated as addicts. If one takes a look at the European history of tobacco, one may notice that those people have not gotten addicted quite willingly. They underwent a careful, planned operation conducted by tobacco industries but in order to prove it one has to go all the way back to the 16th century.