The 2-Minute Rule for Tobacco
The importation of tobacco into England was not without resistance and controversy. Stuart King James I wrote a popular polemic titled A Counterblaste to Tobacco in 1604, by which the king denounced tobacco use as "[a] custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull into the Nose, harmefull into the braine, hazardous to your Lungs, and within the blacke stin