Özet:

Meeting of modern world with tobacco begins with the discovery of America. Tobacco, to which especially the seaman gets used to, begins to be cultivated by bringing the Europe at the beginning of the 16th century. The habit of using tobacco was spread through Europe in a short time. Having been brought to Anatolia for the first time in the 17th century, tobacco found a large usage area. Inventing a machine which produces cigarette in 1880s enabled it to be a common way of using tobacco. The habit pf tobacco was spread throughout the world with the help of development in the cigarette industry in 1918. The habit of smoking has become the source of the most important health problem at this moment in life. People have not thought or been able to quit it although they are aware of the fact that they will be caught with serious illnesses. Health risk of cigarette has been out of matter, which was thought only once. It was brought home with the help of studies carried out that cigarette has an effect on the development of some disorders by itself or with some other factors by gathering; increases the danger of life before achieving some certain ages; contributes to all deaths in society. Nowadays it is accepted that cigarette is on the top of suppressible diseases list. It cannot be anticipated that literature, which is a branch of art that tells emotions, thoughts, longing and desires of human in an aesthetic you, is not insensitive against the habit of smoking; threatening the health of human. In this study some answers to specific questions were investigated by taking the road with this delicacy. How was the historical adventure of tobacco and cigarette? How are the losses of smoking mentioned in the source books? What aspects do poets stress when it comes to smoking? Results were found out in the direction of the facts gathered and suggestions were made.