Tobacco: Sixteenth-Century Panacea .......So Now You Know!

A relationship between smoking and health was recognized soon after the introduction of tobacco to Europeans. In 1588, Thomas Hariot published A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, in which he described the new product to the Old World. "It openeth all the pores and passages of the body," he wrote. Users "are notably (preserved) in health, and know not many greevous diseases wherewithall wee in England are oftentimes afflicted."

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