While most people only think that smokers will get lung cancer, there are other kinds of cancer that a smoker has a higher risk of getting, too
For many First Nations communities in Canada, tobacco carries a rich cultural and spiritual significance

The oldest of nine children, Blockson said he remembers listening in awe as his grandfather told how his father, James Blockson, ran away from servitude in Delaware and fled to Canada, and how he and tens of thousands of other black slaves who fled north along its invisible rails and hid in its clandestine stations in the years before the Civil War kept the secrets of the Underground Railroad locked in his heart until he died. Blockson credited these family stories with inspiring him at an early age to begin collecting information on Afro-Americans in general and the Underground Railroad in particular. The decision to become not just a writer but a bibliophile of black history and literature was reinforced by yet another childhood experience, one that Blockson related without rancor, but offered as further explanation for the forces that drove him to gather the chronicles of his ancestors
Every day, almost 3,200 young individuals try cigarettes for the first time
Now its less than 9%, and continuing to fall