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The [[cigar]] became immensely popular in England in the late [[1820s]]. The [[cigarette]] appeared in [[1828]] in Spain, and enjoyed immediate success. The protagonist of [[Prosper Merimee]]'s ''[[Carmen]]'' of [[1845]] is a girl working in a cigarette factory. But the cigarette remained less popular than the cigar or pipe until the early [[20th century]] in most of Europe, when cheap mechanically made cigarettes became common. [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]] hated tobacco, but after her death, in [[1901]], her son and successor [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|Edward VII]] gathered his friends in a large drawing room at [[Buckingham Palace]] and entered with a lit cigar in his hand, announcing "Gentlemen, you may smoke", initiating the upper class British [[smoking room]].
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[[Tobacco company|Tobacco companies]] succeeded in having their product included in military rations during [[World War I]], where under the stress of warfare many soldiers took up smoking, becoming habitual smokers. After the war, during the [[Roaring Twenties]], cigarette smoking was portrayed in advertising as part of a glamorous carefree lifestyle, and became socially acceptable for women as well. This image continued to be prevalent to some degree until the [[1950s]] and [[1960s]], when the medical community and government (particularly in the [[United States]]) began a campaign to reduce the degree of smoking by showing how it damaged [[public health]]. In recent years tobacco smoking in many regions of the world has dramatically dropped.
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