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Editorial
February 11, 1763
The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
A 1762 London editorial criticizes tobacco, introduced by Sir Walter Raleigh from Virginia, as useless and harmful, detailing harms from smoking, snuffing, and chewing, and calls for discouraging its use in polite society.
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LONDON, Oct. 9, 1762.
Sir Walter Raleigh was the first who introduced Tobacco from Virginia into Europe, it was for a long Time much admired, but has at last met its Deserts in all polite and genteel Company, in being exploded. ..... Useful Commerce should at all Times be encouraged; but as Tobacco is neither Food nor Raiment, it certainly must be confessed that it is of no other Use but, by smoaking it to make People spit up their Lungs, to spoil their Breath as well as Cloaths and Furniture; and by snuffing it to fall upon their Palate, thereby ruining their Speech, and making those who use it snuffle all their Lives. A third Use of it is chewing; but the Practice of those Gentry is too filthy to expatiate on.
Sir Walter Raleigh was the first who introduced Tobacco from Virginia into Europe, it was for a long Time much admired, but has at last met its Deserts in all polite and genteel Company, in being exploded. ..... Useful Commerce should at all Times be encouraged; but as Tobacco is neither Food nor Raiment, it certainly must be confessed that it is of no other Use but, by smoaking it to make People spit up their Lungs, to spoil their Breath as well as Cloaths and Furniture; and by snuffing it to fall upon their Palate, thereby ruining their Speech, and making those who use it snuffle all their Lives. A third Use of it is chewing; but the Practice of those Gentry is too filthy to expatiate on.
What sub-type of article is it?
Moral Or Religious
Science Or Medicine
What keywords are associated?
Tobacco Criticism
Smoking Harms
Snuffing Effects
Chewing Filth
Useful Commerce
What entities or persons were involved?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Virginia
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Criticism Of Tobacco Use
Stance / Tone
Strongly Anti Tobacco
Key Figures
Sir Walter Raleigh
Virginia
Key Arguments
Tobacco Is Neither Food Nor Raiment, Thus Useless
Smoking Causes Spitting Up Lungs, Spoils Breath, Clothes, And Furniture
Snuffing Ruins Palate, Speech, And Causes Lifelong Snuffling
Chewing Is Too Filthy To Describe