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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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