The following verse of Guru Arjan Dev, the fifth Guru in Sri Guru Granth Sahib states: "Those people who eat and chew "Paan" (nicotine betel nuts), and smoke tobacco (meaning that they those who in indulge in intoxicants), and, do not contemplate or do Simran of Vaheguru - (the cycle of) Death will seize them and take them away (to become entangled in the cycle of reincarnation)."The tenth Guru Gobind Singh states: || || ( ) "Listen to the Rehit of a Gursikh who comes in contact with tobacco - it is better to die than to touch the world pollutant drug (tobacco)."(Rehitnama Bhai Nand Laal Singh jee) Kavi Santokh Singh (1787-1853), the infamous Sikh poet and historian, writes in Sooraj Parkash Granth: 22 23 "Those that consume even a minuscule amount of tobacco are disowned in the afterlife by their ancestors and drinking water from such a person is similar to drinking alcohol

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Cuyler Hammond, Ph.D., and Daniel Horn, Ph.D.two scientists working for the American Cancer Societypublished preliminary findings of a cohort study in the Journal of the American Medical Association