Can now in Greece is almost impossible to imagine a Greek without a cigarette in hand, but it wasn’t always things so simple for smokers.
Rodrigo de Jerez, a sailor from the crew of Christopher Columbus was the first who saw indigenous people smoking and one month after the return to the homeland of adopted the habit.
The Spanish inquisition, however, considered that only the devil can puff smoke and imprisoned Jerez for 7 years. To note that until he gets out of prison smoking, it had spread everywhere.
What to say… ΤÏάτζικ.
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