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.

tst123@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

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.

SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world · 11 months ago

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)