A (Very Short) History of Tobacco

Sir Walter Raleigh, one of the most notable figures of the Elizabethan era, was the man historically responsible for popularizing the act of lighting leaves from the tobacco plant on fire and inhaling them deeply into the lungs. In 2002, he was voted one of the 100 Greatest Britons in a BBC poll, but that didn't stop them from beheading him in 1618. Found in his prison cell after his execution was a tobacco pouch engraved with the Latin inscription: Comes meus fuit in illo miserrimo tempore ("It was my companion at that most miserable time").

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