Cigarettes: The History For many years our country has been brought up smoking cigarettes and until the past 50 years our society has excepted it without any complaint. Now since studies have found that smoking does cause cancer increased heart disease and many other health problems tabacco companies are now on the run from the Government. Smoking has now been banned in almost every Bar, Restaurant, and Night Club, and Airplanes. The reason it has been banned is because second hand smoke has also been found to cause lung cancer in people. In the nineteen fifties cigarettes were produced in the same way that they were in the eighteen nineties. Shortly after the nineteen fifties th