Final: Summarization of Tobacco Ordeal

King James I despised the smoking of tobacco due to its negative healthy and social effects. One of the negative social influences was the fact that people who didn’t smoke the plant were basically considered outcasts. King James so detested tobacco smoking that he went to great lengths to publish a pamphlet regarding the negatives of tobacco consumption, which influenced people across Europe. However, sometime during the initial phase of tobacco importation, started 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. Because of difficult to handle paraphernalia, many tobacco addicts eventually switched to other methods of tobacco consumption, such as chewing snuff and/or sniffing tobacco powder. Producers of tobacco in the Chesapeake colonies on the east coast of America were the fundamental cause of tobacco consumption in Europe, and thus they were also the underlying cause of the new and modified culture.