A Secret Weapon For tobacco
The importation of tobacco into England wasn't devoid of resistance and controversy. Stuart King James I wrote a famed polemic titled A Counterblaste to Tobacco in 1604, wherein the king denounced tobacco use as "[a] custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull on the Nose, harmefull on the braine, risky into the Lungs, and during the blacke stinking fume