NO SMOKING BY LAW.
It, is a controversial point as to wik first introduced tobacco into England--Sir John Hawkins from the West Indm in 1565. or Sir Waiter Raleigh and oh 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 jf Elizabeth a proclamation was issued against tobacco smoking, and in his “ Counterblaste to Tobacco," published in 1604, James I described smoking as “ A custom loathsome to the e\e, 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 tobacca in England was prohibited by an Act ol Charles II in 1654.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20292, 28 December 1927, Page 10
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