A Counterblaste to Tobacco

Should I ever doubt that we've long known tobacco was bad, I'll simply return to this book written by King James I in 1604, A Counterblaste to Tobacco.

The text exemplifies Jacobean writing so well, wherein King James describes smoking tobacco as a "custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomelesse."

Good stuff.