Chapter 59: Making Cigarettes to Make Money

In order to survive, to make fire, and to preserve the fire, the mountain tribes invented the method of collecting tobacco leaves, cigarettes, and smoking in each tribe of the primitive society at that time, which was quickly spread, popularized, and inherited and developed from generation to generation. Many people are addicted to cigarettes and can't live without them. Since then, the fire has been retained for a long time, so that everyone can live a good life with fire. Therefore, it can be said that the invention of smoking has made an important contribution to the progress and development of human society.

Many years have passed, and more and more people smoke, and many people can't do without cigarettes and rely on cigarettes. Smoking is no longer just about taking fire, retaining the role of fire, its role has been amplified a lot: some people say: smoke is fragrant, smoke a cigarette after a meal, feel comfortable; When people are tired and tired, smoking a cigarette can lift their spirits; When people are confused in the face of problems, smoking a cigarette can open their minds; When a person is depressed, smoking a cigarette can relieve sorrow; Hand a cigarette to the person as a sign of friendship when you meet someone. In short, people think that cigarettes are indispensable in life, and the number of smokers is increasing, and the demand for cigarettes is increasing.

Many years have passed, and clever people have invented the wood for fire, and flint for fire. It's not just smoking that keeps the fire. However, it is believed that smoke has a fragrance, can refresh the mind, and can restore fatigue and other effects. It is not something that can be replaced by wood and flint. Therefore, he was reluctant to give up smoking, and still smoked cigarettes every day in Tianjin, and the number of smokers was still increasing, and the demand for cigarettes was further increased.

Thousands of years have passed, mankind is progressing, society is developing, and the world has divided its borders. With the progress of human society, science and technology are also developing, and the fire tools necessary for people's lives have also undergone great changes:

According to the relevant data records, in 577 A.D., during the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties in our country, wars broke out, the Northern Qi suffered from the enemy, the shortage of materials, very difficult, because of the lack of fire, cooking rice is a problem, at that time a group of palace maids magically invented matches, but the ancient matches in our country are just a kind of fire-starting materials.

Later, it was introduced to Europe during the Marco Polo period, and later Europeans invented modern matches on this basis, which was once called "foreign fire". "Foreign fire" can make fire by friction. The person who invented this match was Walker in England, who in 1826 used gum and water to make paste-like antimony sulfide and **, which were applied to the match stem and clamped on sandpaper and pulled to produce fire. The emergence of matches has brought convenience to our human life and made a great contribution to the progress of world civilization.

In 1823, the German chemist Beilena invented the world's first lighter. In 1920, the appearance of the wick lighter in France made a big step forward in the means of ignition.

The invention of wood for fire, the invention of flint for fire, and the invention of matches, the invention of lighters. It is enough to show that the fire tools are becoming more and more advanced, and it is more and more convenient for people to make fire. Therefore, it is long overdue to replace smoking as a tinder, and smoking retains the role of fire. However, not only have people not given up smoking, but more and more people are still smoking, and the amount of cigarettes is increasing. The effects of smoking have been artificially amplified a lot......

People with economic acumen have found that many people are smoking, and they are addicted, the number of smokers is growing, and even some people do not hesitate to buy cigarettes to smoke, and the demand for cigarettes has also skyrocketed, businessmen think that this is a big business opportunity, and begin to think about how to use cigarettes to make money. Some farmers began to grow tobacco for sale and became tobacco farmers; Some people process tobacco leaves into tobacco and sell them and become tobacco merchants; Some large families sell handmade cigarettes and become handmade cigarette workshops, and because the supply of cigarettes exceeds the demand, they hire workers to set up small cigarette factories. The profits of cigarettes are quite high, which prompts the number of these small cigarette factories to continue to increase, and they compete with each other, improve each other, continue to develop, and constantly create new products, which further increases profits. As a result, the production of tobacco has become a source of wealth for some people......

According to relevant records, in 1612, a clever man planted the first acres of tobacco for commercial use in Virginia, USA. In 1799, a soldier in Turkey invented the paper cigarette. In 1843, French tobacco dealers began producing Spanish-style cigarette rolls, officially named "cigarette" in French, from which the English word cigarette derives. In 1881, a cigarette machine with a daily production of 120,000 cigarette rolls was patented for an invention, and large-scale production of cigarettes began. The cigarettes produced by the cigarette machine have the same specifications, exquisite packaging, greatly improved work efficiency, lower cost than manual cigarettes, and the profit is also greatly improved. Later, cigarette machine factories were set up one after another, and the production of cigarettes on a larger scale gradually replaced manual cigarettes.

In recent years, due to the increasing number of smokers, the demand for cigarettes has increased greatly, and the trade of cigarettes has developed faster in countries around the world, so the production of cigarettes is getting larger and larger, the grades are getting higher and higher, the prices are getting more and more expensive, and the manufacturers are making more and more money. According to relevant information, the world's most expensive cigarettes are 24 euros per pack, which is equivalent to more than 244 yuan in China, the most expensive cigarettes in China are 140 yuan per pack, and medium cigarettes are 10 to 50 yuan per pack, and the profit from the production of cigarettes is quite high. As a result, illegal cigarette makers have emerged, and counterfeit and shoddy cigarette products have also been put on the market, and the profits of these inferior cigarettes are staggeringly high. But there are still many people who buy and smoke.

In recent years, the role of smoke has been further amplified by people, and some people say: "After a meal, a cigarette race is a living immortal;" Some people also said: "I don't want to be promoted to an official position and make money, but I just want to have two cigarettes and dinner." There are also people who say: "Only those who smoke have the demeanor, those who smoke have popularity, those who smoke can do things, smoke is a kind of grass, handing over a cigarette can resolve the contradictions between people, giving people two packs of cigarettes can do one thing, giving people two cigarettes can do a big deal." Smoke is not only a nerve-stimulating and exciting thing, the so-called refreshment, but also becomes the best item for people to socialize, a gift..... As a result, many people have joined the ranks of smoking, some women have smoked like men, and even many secondary school students have learned to smoke. According to relevant records, 10 trillion cigarettes are smoked every year in the world. What a staggering number!

In order to meet the needs of smokers, major cigarette factories continue to increase the output of cigarettes, constantly improve the grade of cigarettes, constantly create new brands, and constantly increase the price of cigarettes. There are even new cigarette factories being created all the time. Counterfeit and shoddy cigarettes produced by illegal cigarette factories have also been put on the market, making a lot of money......