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A Counterblaste to Tobacco

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notes of vanitie upon you: by the custome thereof making your selves to be wondered at by all forraine civil Nations, and by all strangers that come among you, to be scorned and contemned. A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible
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Have you not reason then to bee ashamed, and to forbeare this filthie noveltie, so basely grounded, so foolishly received and so grossely mistaken in the right use thereof? In your abuse thereof sinning against God, harming your selves both in persons and goods, and raking also thereby the markes and
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Because of continued high demand for tobacco in England and negative effects on the economies of the American colonies, the king in 1624 instead created a royal monopoly for the crop. 150 years later,
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Ziser, Michael. "Sovereign Remedies: Natural Authority and the 'Counterblaste to Tobacco'."
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Ley, Willy (December 1965). "The Healthfull Aromatick Herbe". For Your Information.
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Anderson, Susan Campbell. "A matter of authority: James I and the tobacco war."
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The Complete Guide to Cigars: An Illustrated Guide to the World's Finest Cigars
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Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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James's dislike of tobacco led him in 1604 to authorize
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1604 anti-tobacco treatise by King James VI of Scotland
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and refers to medical theories of the time (e.g. the
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treatise
King
James VI of Scotland and I of England
tobacco
tobacco smoking
Early Modern English
four humours
Native Americans
passive smoking
lungs
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset
excise tax
tariff
shillings
pence
imported
British
utilitarian
philosopher
Jeremy Bentham
antipathy

copying
Wikiquote

Stigian


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