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Was England’s King James I a royal visionary?

Here’s what he thought of smoking, circa 1610:

1. “dangerous to the lungs”

2. “black stinking fumes”

3. “harmfull to the ears”

4. “loathesome to the eye”

5. “hatefull to the nose”