Stuart King James I wrote a famous polemic titled A Counterblaste to Tobacco in 1604, in which the king denounced tobacco use 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 ." [13] That year, an English statute was enacted that placed a heavy protective tariff on tobacco imports
STATE AND LOCAL POLICIES Several states and localities have enacted laws to restrict the sale of flavored tobacco products
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The ban had been imposed by the City Council in December 2024, following years of heated debate (a ban was originally passed back in December 2021, only to be overturned by a veto from then-Mayor Michael Hancock days later)
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