The cigarette is one of the major causes of death on the planet, from the numerous diseases it causes to the effects it causes on a psychotic level in a person. Because smoking is dangerous because secondhand smoke and peer pressure succumb to the minds and thoughts of people who go and do these horrible things. The cigarette looks simple but is actually a piece of engineered death according to Hyde who says “A cigarette seems simple: just a paper wrapped around some tobacco, but today's cigarettes are a carefully designed nicotine delivery system” (Hyde 17 ) Cigarette also claims that “cigarette smoke contains over seven thousand chemicals, sixty-nine of which cause cancer” (Smoking) some may wonder if something so ridiculous and causes the death of the person who made it or who had it the brilliant idea of ​​mass producing it but in reality no one knows” No one knows exactly when people started using tobacco for pleasure, but the early days were very limited. Some experts say that tobacco was used as early as eight thousand years ago. ” (Hyde 74) People began to recognize that smoking was harmful as early as 1604, under King James I, who said, “Smoking is a habit disgusting to the eyes, retarded to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in its black, smelly fumes." (Hyde 71). Smoking is one of the largest death rates in the United States with more deaths than HIV, illegal drug use, alcohol use, car accidents and fire-related accidents combined, plus the amount of smoking-related deaths is ten times higher than in all the wars the United States has participated in all together (Health Effects of Cigarette Smoking The number of smokers in the states alone). States is a gigantic number with "In 2009, and estimated forty-six million...... half of the document ...... h."Tobacco Cessation Program."University of Minnesota. University of Minnesota Regents 2003. Web. March 30, 2014 Data, Adrian. “When the NHL lights up and smokes.” Sports illustrated 29 February 2012: n.pay.Web.30 March 2014 "Health effects of cigarette smoking". Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. USA Gov, February 6, 2014. Web. March 26, 2014. Hyde Margaret, et al. “An Overview for Teens Smoking 101.” Minneapolis, MN: Twenty-First Century Books, 2006. Print.Park, Alice. “Adolescent brain structure may be altered by smoking.” Time March 3, 2014:n. pay. Network. 30 March 2014. “Passive smoking”. American Foundation for Nonsmokers' Rights, February 4, 2014. Web. March 30, 2014. “Smoking.” American Lung Association. convio, 2014. Web. March 26, 2014. “Smoking.” Medlineplus. US National Library of Medicine, March 19 .2014.Web.26 March.2014.“Smoking. " Adolescent Health. Nemous,2014.Web.March 26.2014.