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  2. East Africa Time - Wikipedia

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    b Mauritius and the Seychelles are to the east and north-east of Madagascar respectively. East Africa Time, or EAT, is a time zone used in eastern Africa. The time zone is three hours ahead of UTC ( UTC+03:00 ), which is the same as Moscow Time, Arabia Standard Time, Further-eastern European Time and Eastern European Summer Time. [1]

  3. Tobacco in the United States - Wikipedia

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    According to the research, for every 100 U.S adults, age 18 or older, more than 15 smoked cigarettes in 2016. In other words, there are about 37.8 million cases of cigarette smokers in the United States. More than 16 million Americans are living with a smoking-related disease.

  4. Regulation of tobacco by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration

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    By 1950, most states had laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to minors, which at the time, the purchase age differed in each state. In 2020 the federal government required states to set a minimum age of at least 21 years to purchase tobacco products, which was amended in all states by 2020.

  5. History of commercial tobacco in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In Europe, there was a desire for not only snuff, pipes and cigars, but cigarettes appeared as well. Cigar rolling and even the creation of pipe tobacco at the time was labor-intensive and, without slave labor, innovation needed to occur. Bonsack's cigarette rolling machine, as shown on U.S. patent 238,640.

  6. Tobacco smoking - Wikipedia

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    Tobacco smoking is the practice of burning tobacco and ingesting the resulting smoke. The smoke may be inhaled, as is done with cigarettes, or simply released from the mouth, as is generally done with pipes and cigars. The practice is believed to have begun as early as 5000–3000 BC in Mesoamerica and South America. [1]

  7. Eastern Time Zone - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico. Places that use: Eastern Standard Time (EST), when observing standard time (autumn/winter), are five hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−05:00).

  8. Prevalence of tobacco use - Wikipedia

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    The prevalence of tobacco use was generally lower among those with higher education levels. Adults aged 18–24 years were at 24.4% and 25–44 years were at 24.1%, which were the highest prevalence indicators. The prevalence of current smoking was higher among adults living below the poverty line at 29.9% than among those at or above the ...

  9. History of smoking - Wikipedia

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    The history of smoking dates back to as early as 5000 BC in the Americas in shamanistic rituals. With the arrival of the Europeans in the 16th century, the consumption, cultivation, and trading of tobacco quickly spread. The modernization of farming equipment and manufacturing increased the availability of cigarettes following the ...