| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 4 History of tobacco in chronological order |
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| History of tobacco in chronological order: 1600 |
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| King James I of England was a prominent early critic of tobacco. He wrote: "A |
| custome lothsome to the Eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmfull to the Braine, daungerous |
| to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible |
| Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomelesse." He wrote that tobacco was a "filthie |
| noveltie." |
| A Counterblaste to Tobacco, King James I, 1604 |
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| "What honor or policie can move us to imitate the barbarous and beastly manners of |
| the wilde, godlesse, and slavish Indians, especially in so vile and stinking a |
| custome?...Why do we not as well imitate them in walking naked as they do?" |
| King James I, 1604 |
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| "For the vanities committed in this filthy custome, is it not both great vanity and |
| uncleanness, that at the table, a place of cleanliness, men should not be ashamed, to |
| sit puffing of the smoke of tobacco, making the filthy smoke and stink thereof, to |
| exhale athwart the dishes, and infect the air, when very often men that abhor it are at |
| their repast?" |
| A Counterblaste to Tobacco, King James I, 1604 |
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| "It makes a kitchen also oftentimes in the inward parts of men, soiling and infecting |
| them with an unctuous and oily kind of Soote, as hath bene found in some great |
| Tobacco takers, that after death were opened." |
| King James I, about 1605 (JAMA, February 26, 1992, p. 1037) |
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| King James I wrote, "Being taken when they go to bed, it (tobacco) makes one sleep |
| soundly, and yet being taken when a man is sleepy or drowsy, it will, as they say, |
| awake his brain and quicken his understanding." |
| Nicotine, p. 41 |
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