Draft: Summarization of Tobacco Ordeal

King James I demoted the smoking of Tobacco for reasons of its unhealthy consumption effects and negative social influences. One of such negative social influences is the fact that people who didn’t smoke the plant were basically considered outcasts. He despised it so that he went to lengths of publishing a pamphlet on the negatives of Tobacco consumption, thereby having influence on other Europeans. Within the initial phase of Tobacco importation, made by the Spaniards in 1600c, physicians declared it an herb capable of potential healing. The amounts of tobacco being imported increased 200-fold during the 1700c, exponentially decreasing purchase price, making it possible for almost every European to adapt the new fashion of smoking tobacco. The new fashion had a big influence on European culture. Large congregations for smoking tobacco became very popular. Eventually, many tobacco addicts switched to other methods of tobacco consumption such as snuff and sniffing of tobacco powder, because of difficult to handle paraphernalia. Producers of tobacco in Chesapeake colonies were the fundamental cause of tobacco consumption in Europe, and so were also the underlying cause of the new and modified culture in Europe.