| 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 raised the tobacco tax from 2 pence to 82 pence per pound, making |
| tobacco more expensive than silver. |
| Tobacco and Health, p. 221 |
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| In the early 17th century, tobacco was so popular in England that it was exchanged for |
| silver ounce for ounce. In 1610, an observer noted: "Many a young nobleman's estate |
| is altogether spent and scattered to nothing in smoke. This befalls in a shameful |
| fashion, in that a man's estate runs out through his nose, and he wastes whole days, |
| even years, in drinking of tobacco." |
| Licit and Illicit Drugs, p. 210 |
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| The English playwright Ben Jonson (1572-1637), called tobacco "the most sovereign |
| and precious weed that ever the earth has tendered to the use of man." |
| Canadian Medical Association Journal, November 1, 1994, p. 1239 |
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