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Going back as far as 1604, King James I of England had the following to say about smoking:

A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse.

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/james1.html



James was also an evil fascist. Hitler hated smoking. See the pattern?


"Scholars agree that, in addition to being a teetotaler and a non-smoker, Adolf Hitler practiced some form of vegetarianism." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_of_Adolf_Hitler)

Just for historical curiousity. I do not want to start a debate about the Nazis.



Godwin'd!




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