We Have Come A Long Way!
As tobacco use spread as a wonder cure, it did not take long to catch on as a recreation (although many persons stated that they were actually using it to prevent diseases such as the plague). In 1604 King James I of England wrote an anti- tobacco treatise called “A Counterblaste to Tobacco” in which he expressed his distaste for tobacco, particularly tobacco smoking. He stated that smoking affects “the inward parts of man, soiling and infecting them with a vicious and oily kind of Soote, as hath been found in some great tobacco takers, that after their death opened”. He even commented on the effects of second hand smoke. The king rightly blamed Sir Walter Raleigh for the popularity of smoking in England. Raleigh like any true smoker, smoked one last pipe before he was beheaded, in order “to settle his spirits”.
DR. JACQUELINE E. CAMPBELL B.Sc. (Hons) M.Phil. (Pharmacology) M.B., B.S. Dr. Jacqueline Elaine Campbell is a family physician whose special interests are Pharmacology, and the use of Alternative/Complementary Medicine in the treatment of diabetes and other diseases that are common in Jamaica. She is the author of A Patient\’s Guide to the Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus. http://www.6westmedical.com
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