 Smoking tobacco has been around practically forever, but cigarettes as a commercial product are actually a fairly recent invention. Before the Crimean War most Europeans smoked pipes or cigars. During the war, however, English soldiers picked up the habit of rolling their tobacco in newsprint from their Turkish allies. Being small, easy to light, and easy to carry around with you, the advent of the pre-made cigarette shortly thereafter allowed for an explosion in the amount of tobacco the average person could smoke.
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A new, five-year phase of their joint semiconductor technology development alliance was recently begun IBM Corp., Armonk NY, and Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. of Japan. The companies will work together on fundamental research related to advanced process technologies at 32 nanometers (32nm) and beyond.