A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco
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King James 1 of England
A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco
PA: The Rodale Press, 1954.
First printing.
An anonymous pamphlet on 'the vile custome' of smoking appeared in 1604, now attributed to the outspoken King James.
He called it: 'loathsome to the Eye, hateful to the Nose, harmful to the Brain, dangerous to the Lungs'; he had a point.
Hardcover, with one corner cut to first end page.