The first medical authority to weigh in was King James I??the proper Phisician of his Politicke-body??with A Counterblaste to Tobacco, a treatise that set the template. In short, James wrote vehemently that smoking was gross, but he was writing in 1604, so it came out more like groff. In the United States, the prose practice of huffing about puffing blew up in the 1830s. The anti-tobacco voices joined the chorus of the temperance movement, and for the duration of the 19th century we got a lot of tracts and sermons deploring filth, waste, and licentious idleness. And yet the writers?addressing young boys and old bluenoses, not smokers?weren?t even interested in nagging you properly.
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