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TIL that 1604, King James I wrote ‘A Counterblaste to Tobacco’, in which he described smoking as a ‘custome lothesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs.
“But, m’Lord, we can TAX it and make a ton of money!”
James I: “Oh, carry on then.”
Same here in the US by a huge margin. I was a smoker once, and what finally got me to quit was imagining the politicians I hated most making money off of me. Tobacco is a government-funded addictive substance that is being pushed by us around the world for profit.
There were like three people in Europe at the time and two of them had died in the plague, and the rest of them couldn’t read or write, so there just wasn’t anyone to mark up much of anything really.
(I’m no mathematician so the numbers might be slightly off)