Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-21

an edict against tobacco. affirming that by indulging in the same luxuries as bar barians, her subjects were themselves likely to degenerate into barbarism Sapient virginity!
 Her successor, the pious James, the murderer of Raleigh and the legislator on issued in 1603 his famous 'counteF-blaste to tobacco a fitting em anation from the brain of this weak and | hated his victims importation, and did | his best to crush it. the duty was aug | mented from 2d to 6s. Tod per lb. Ths | was meant as prohibitory. and the plant | CTS in the newly established colonoy were | forbidden to raise more than one hun | dred weight each in a year. The learn | ed Joshua Sylvester, to please his kingly | patron, published a work with the follow ing singular and ling winded title, "To- baeeo battered, and the Pipes shattered (about the ears that idly idolize so base and barbarous weed, or, leastwise over love so loathsome canitie), by voley of holy shot, thundered from Mount Hel- icon
 Notwithstanding this regal and priest ly wrath, the use of the IGant extended far and wide. It appears from a note in the Criminal trials, that in 1900 the French ambassador in his dispatches represented the peers on the trial of the Earls of Essex and Southampton, as smoking tobacco most vigorously while
 debating upon their verdict Sir Walter
 smoked pipe whilst walking to the scaf- fold.
 Charles l continued the excessive i1n- post and made tobacco a royal monopoly. Charles II wrote to the University of Camorldge forbidding the members to
 wear periWigs, smoke tobacco or read sermons It is needless to remark that tobacco has not yet made it's exit in
 tumo,' and that periwigs still continue to adorn the heads of houses In Russia where the peasantry now smoke all day l long, the Grand Duke of Moscow pro- ! hlDlted the entrance of tobacco into his l dominions, under the penalty of personal i chaStIzement for the first offence, and 1 death for the second; and the Muscovite
 Who was found snuf1ing was condemned to have his nostrils split. So great. in-
 deed. was the hostility of the government against tobacco in every form that a particular court of law for punishing of smokers was instituted in 1854 and not abolished until the middle of the
 eighteenth century. In 1890 Shah Abbas
 forbade the use of tobacco in Persia by
 a penal law; but so firmly had the lux.
 ury rooted itself among his subjects that many inhabitants of cities fled to the
 mountains, where they hid themselves , rather than forego the pleasure ot
 smoking. In 1924 Pape Urban VIII
 mathematical all snuff-takers who in dulged in the habit in any church, an( in 1890 Pope Innocent ex-communicateC
 all who indulged in that vice in tn, :, church of St. Peter at Rome. In 162I l the grand sultan, Amarath ", prohib lted all smoking, as an unnatural and ir religious custom, under pain of death f few, indeed, suffered the penalty, yet il ? Constantinople, where the custom is nov l universal, smoking was thought to be s r ridiculous and hurtful that any Turl who was caught in the act was conduct
 ed in ridicule through the streets wit = a pipe passed through his nose. Evel e in Switzerland war was waged agains the American herb; in 1853 all smoker = were cited before the council of Appen l gel and several punished, and in 166 7. the police regulations of the. canton o r Berne placed the prohibition of smokin
 in the Ten Commandments, irnmediatel
 under that against adultery and it wa y to be punished as an equal crime.
 An amusing fact is related of Fa I gon, physician to Louis XIV, and serve
 well to illustrate the sincerity of oppo y sition for fashions sake. In the mids
 of violent speech on the perniciou s effects of tobacco, Fagon made a paus
 and, taking a snuff-box from his pocke
 refreshed himself with a pinch to enabl 0 him to renew the argument.
 Nor have certain prosecutors faile t to reach it even in our own country. I'll
 public press has out of mistaken bl $ doubtless honest zeal, gone so far as
 denounce the chewers, and in particuls Il street smokers in almost every variet
 of terms. In Boston, street smoking
 prohibited by law, in the execution d which an old wooden-legged soldier WI T. had braved the smoke of war in our re g oIution was arrested and rudely draggi g before the authorities for smoking Id the street. In Philadelphia the prohit I'd tion of smoking in public extends on T. through the markets and the smoker IS still at liberty to enliven his walk wi D. 9 cigar, and long may he enjoy the swe V prerogRtiVe. No other states . tl IS Union have as yet interfered with t ne comforts of the smoker, either in pub " or private. Look round our fair citi' as every turn of the eye meets a neat sh a. and tobacco sign, and the honest a ed industrious dealers in the cigar fin C. cut, twist, plug and pigtau still yieldi ln enjoyment and employment to thousant H. How many boys and even females W ne can earn a comfortable living by V " tue of the tobacco trade would be left 10 idleness and misery were its uses prohi O. tied, to say nothing of the very hume US ous and respectable class of operatiy as whose profession it is to prepare the le oh in it's various useful forms. It is co 'n; puted that one-tenth of the populati eo of the United States are employed in | II cultivation and manufacture of tobac SIX Like many other objects of sew he po- o1.a;as IT. 1oas Laco,,,o tI,o c,,s+ lid t.s fort,;or, os am nstione and exnf
 ences but a trifing opposition from
 j a ignorant, the interested or the tas