11 is a-controversial point who first introduced tobacco into England—Sir John Hawkins from the West Indies in 1060, or Sir AValter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake in 1586. Tobacco smoking did not find great .favour in the early days, and many attempts were made to suppress it by law. In the reign of Elizabeth a proclamation was issued against tobacco smoking, and in his "Counterblast to Tobacco," published in 1604, James I. described smoking as "A custom loathsome, to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." The cultivation of tobacco in England was prohibited by an act of Charles 11. in 1681.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19151, 7 November 1927, Page 7
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