#Counterblaste to Tobacco

[yallambie]

Smoking as an Olympic size sport

If I owned a bucket filled with all things that I had wanted to do in one life, I think I’d turn it upside down right now and have a good long look for the hole I’m sure must be down there somewhere. It’s true the bucket list of all we mean to get done never quite measures up to our expectations, something the Spanish call, “mañana, mañana” but I’m wondering if what I have is really less of a…

[james-vi-stan-blog]

Later, in another one of Hatfield’s 223 rooms, we witness a pivotal moment for one of those relationships. Sealed with a kiss on a forehead, King James, played by prolific Scottish actor Tony Curran, bestows a knighthood on George. We watch as Danish actor Trine Dyrholm, playing James’ wife Anne, delivers a delicious bit of euphemistic dialogue: “I think it’s time for a new member in your bedchamber.”

As D.C. Moore later explains, this was not just a spot of 16th-century innuendo: ‘Gentleman Of The Royal Bedchamber’ was a real title in royal households at the time. “George basically controlled the country and did what he wanted,” he explains. “Meanwhile, James is like, ‘I just want to smoke and swear and get pissed and have sex with men and chill out and go hunting.’” God save the king!

Ok now this sounds promising, ngl.

Interesting characterization of Anna (and I don't mean that as a diss, I much prefer her shown as nonchalant about James's interests, and I really don't want her shown as jealous, like oscarjamesleigh articulated in that post). It's important to show her as involved in George's rise! But I also hope they show her being prophetic about the foolishness of the courtiers using one favorite to drive out another. I'm so mad about her showing up as a SILENT PASSIVE CHARACTER in Gunpowder (2017).

However,

DEPICTING JAMES AS JUST WANTING TO SMOKE???????

EXCUSE ME???????

HOW COULD YOU GET THIS WRONG?????

[stephensmithuk]

The Sign of Four: The Story of the Bald-Headed Man

The Victorians were rather into what is known as chinoiserie, the European imitation of Chinese and other East Asian artistic traditions, although the popularity had somewhat peaked by this point.

The stethoscope had been invented in France in 1816 by René Laennec and the two-ear version was commercially available from 1852. The practice before and without one - see A Study in Scarlet - was to listen to the chest by applying your ear directly too. This was a bit awkward when dealing with a woman, the reason Laennec invented it in the first place.

We've seen Tokay before, in "The Last Bow".

Since tobacco came to Europe, there have been people who couldn't stand the smell. James I of England/James VI of Scotland wrote A Counterblaste to Tobacco in 1604, one of the earliest anti-smoking works. He would impose an import tax on tobacco, then later made it a royal monopoly.

It was also considered taboo to spoke in front of women for much of this period; hence the use of smoking rooms. It was also seen as unladylike for a woman to smoke at all; if she did, it evoked an image of prostitution. Unless you were working class, in which case women widely smoked.

Hookah comes from the Hindustani word "huqqa". Hindustani is also known as Hindi-Urdu; Hindi being the Devanagari-written version used in India and Urdu the Pakistani version written in the Persian alphabet. Both countries have tried to make their two versions somewhat distinct; Hindustani is not used in official terminilogy in either. In speech, the two are pretty much mutually intelligible, if you keep things simple.

The hookah remains popular in South Asia and the Middle East; smoking is not specifically prohibited in the Quran, but in recent decades, a number of very prominent clerics have declared it haram (forbidden). In much of Europe and North America, indoor smoking bans cover hookahs, places that offer them have had to switch to tobacco-free version.

In any event, hookah smoking is really bad for your health - you're basically inhaling the equivalent of 100-200 cigarettes in a single session.

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was a French realist painter. Works of his can be found in the Louvre and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, among various other galleries.

Pondicherry, which we've seen mentioned before, is a city on the south-east coast of what is now India; it was a French territory at the time - the British had taken it more than once, but returned to them each time, the last time in 1814.

The lightweight division of boxing today covers weights of 130 to 135 pounds. The current British lightweight champion is James Tennyson, but he has not fought a professional bout since a technical knockout to Jovanni Straffon in 2021.

Agra, located in Uttar Pradesh, is best known as the location of the Taj Mahal, built on the orders of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan between 1631 and 1653 as a mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal after her death in childbirth in 1631. He is also buried there himself.

£500,000 in 1888 would be the equivalent of over £54m at 2024 values. Not a bad chunk of change.

[indigenouscontemporaryart]

Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill | Counterblaste. 2021

Pantyhose, tobacco, thread, charms, plastic flowers, dried flowers, earring beaded by Cheryl L’Hirondelle, running shoes, beads, rabbit fur earrings, and nail polish. 

Tobacco is considered essential to physical, social and spiritual well-being in many Indigenous cultures throughout the Americas. Hill, a Métis artist who lives on the unceded lands of the Skwxwú7mesh, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver), grew up using tobacco for gifting and ceremony, and developed an interest in how the practice has survived colonization, criminalization and capitalism. But, for Hill, its Indigenous usage represents an alternative system guided by an ethic of distribution and reciprocity.

“Counterblaste (2021), is a chimeric figure laying on one side. Her eight breasts are swollen – some painfully red – but she rests contentedly as if having just finished feeding her young. Her head is cradled in the nook of an elbow with her lop ears sprawled outwards and her feet, laced into scuffed running shoes that show the wear and tear typical of a busy mother, are tucked behind. The work’s title references a treatise written by King James VI and I in 1604 titled ‘Counterblaste to Tobacco’, a vitriolic pamphlet decreeing a personal distaste for smoking: a habit his fellow countrymen had acquired in the colonies and was fast becoming a favourite pastime. James’s treatise reduces tobacco to its association as a treatment for venereal disease, describing it as ‘a stinking and unsavorie Antidot, for so corrupted and execrable a Maladie’ – accompanied by his blistering condemnations of ‘barbarous people’, rooted in sexualized, racist hate. As a direct affront to the King’s masculine paranoia, Hill’s Counterblaste gives form to an Indigenous body politic that challenges conquest ideologies. The maligned sexuality of Indigenous peoples and the derogation of the tobacco plant are effaced by the gaze of this confident mother.” ( https://www.frieze.com/article/moma-projects-gabrielle-hirondelle-hill-2021-review)

[sophie-the-cat]

A Counterblaste to Tobacco is a treatise written by King James VI of Scotland and I of England in 1604, in which he expresses his distaste for tobacco, particularly tobacco smoking. As such, it is one of the earliest anti-tobacco publications.

To be an absolute King and ban products you dislike from your kingdoms.

[thebritishmonarchycouk]

King James VI & I’s Anti-Smoking Campaign . . A counterblaste to tobacco book, 1604 . Written by King James VI & I . . ◼ Tobacco was introduced into Europe from South America in the mid-16th century, and it is traditionally said that Sir Walter Raleigh promoted its use in England. . ◼ King James I, soon after his accession to the throne (24 March 1604), joined in the anti-smoking campaign with this vehement denunciation, to which he punningly refers as ‘the fume of an idle brain’. . ◼ In his peroration he calls tobacco-smoking a ‘custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the brains, daungerouse to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomelesse’. . . The king was well ahead of the times ! . . 🇬🇧🇬🇧 This book is available FREE at our Amazon UK Kindle store. Check our stories. 🇬🇬🇧🇧 . . . #KingJamesI #KingJamesVI #JamesIofEngland #JamesVIofScotland #HouseofStuart #History #ScottishMonarchy #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #historic #royalhistory #smoking #cigarettes #Antismoking #stuarts #theking #instahistory #heritage #Books #Instabooks #ebooks (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B61Qq2BAfKq/?igshid=1tioyr97tofxn

[georgebucket]

In 1604, King James I wrote ‘A Counterblaste to Tobacco’, in which he described smoking as a ‘custome lothesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs.

[ofgraveconcern]

27th July 1586, English explorer, politician, spy and pirate (according to the Spanish), Sir Walter Raleigh brings the first tobacco to England from Virginia. The plant was already known to the English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese, who referred to it as the "sacred herb", because it was considered medicinal. The first recorded use in England of it being smoked, was recorded by English clergyman William Harrison in 1573. Despite its popularity, Stuart King James I, and VI of Scotland, wrote of his dislike of tobacco in a pamphlet titled ‘A Counterblaste to Tobacco’ in 1604; stating that it was a custom ‘ lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, and dangerous to the Lungs’, On the same day and year, English astronomer Sir Thomas Harriot, who is also known to history as the first person to draw a map of the moon, brings the first potatoes to Europe; on return to England after being part of Sir Walter Raleigh’s Roanoke expedition. The potato became a staple of European food by the 19th century, especially in Ireland, staving off famine, throughout periods of war, and climate change triggered by the last interval of the Little Ice Age. 29th July 1588, the Spanish Armada fleet is scattered and damaged by the English Navy, following the Battle of Gravelines in the Spanish Netherlands. On the previous day, the English had sailed fireships into the armada which began the breaking up of the ships’ close formation. Both navies after the battle suffered horrifically with the English ships suffering an outbreak of typhus, with further disease and starvation killing the sailors. The Spanish Armada with many damaged ships after the battle were pursued by the English until (Continued in the comments). #walterraleigh #sirwalterraleigh #elizabethi #elizabethan #tobaccoleaf #virginiahistory #jamesi #potatohistory #potato #roanoke #roanokevirginia #16thcentury #ageofdiscovery #spanisharmada #tudorhistory #littleiceage #shipwreck #shipwrecks #thespanisharmada #sirfrancisdrake #britishhistory #englishhistory #claypipe #claypipes #claypipesmoker #historicalstory #historystory #thehumblepotato #thepotato #tobaccopipe https://www.instagram.com/p/CR9Q6uInAWF/?utm_medium=tumblr

[iamdanw]

King James I’s 1604 treatise “A Counterblaste to Tobacco” called tobacco a “filthie noveltie” that was “hatefull to the Nose” and “harmefull to the braine.”

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[mumblingsage]

Alternate history novel idea: 

Instead of that “dying” thing, Marlowe travels to the court of James VI of Scotland (where Thomas Kyd testified he said he “meant to be” when they last spoke in May 1593). Aka the court of the future James I of England, who

1.) had love affairs with his favorites intense enough that they may have inspired parts of Edward II

2.) wrote a book on Demonology in 1597, and was generally pretty worked up about witchcraft and people making deals with the Devil

3.) wrote and published the Counterblaste to Tobacco in 1604, arguing it was filthy and unhealthy and basically being ahead of his time, but kinda counter to Kit “all who love not tobacco and boys are fools” Morley, right?

Oh, 4.) there was that whole version of the Bible thing which might either delight or annoy someone who complained “All the New Testament is filthily written.” 

They...fight crime? Or each other? Or both? 

[james-vi-stan-blog]

i can‘t believe they got the smoking part wrong. this is really irking me…

I hope that was an offhand slip during an interview and not indicative of actual show content😬if James smokes in the show and they don't explain it away as hypocrisy I'll be soooo mad...

A Counterblaste to Tobacco is short and available full text free if anyone is curious and hasn't read it, and if the period English is difficult for you someone wrote a modern spelling version on English Language & Usage Stack Exchange.

Big TW racism but I was amazed at how, in 1604, James complained about peer pressure, correlation/causation, regression to the mean, anecdata, nonsensical claims of curing opposite conditions, etc., as regards trendy health hacks. IN 1604!!

Despite his many bad decisions (and, in Counterblaste in particular, scientifically wrong and racist premises), he really was a smart and savvy guy.

[marialilllitharrowwild]

What does thIs mean

smoke (n.1)

late Old English smoca (rare) "fumes and volatile material given off by burning substances," related to smeocan "give off smoke," from Proto-Germanic *smuk- (source also of Middle Dutch smooc, Dutch smook, Middle High German smouch, German Schmauch), from PIE root *smeug- "to smoke; smoke" (source also of Armenian mux "smoke," Greek smykhein "to burn with smoldering flame," Old Irish much, Welsh mwg "smoke").

There is no fyre without some smoke [Heywood, 1562]

The more usual noun was Old English smec, which became dialectal smeech. Abusive meaning "black person" attested from 1913, American English. Smoke-eater "firefighter" is c. 1930. Figurative phrase go up in smoke "be destroyed" (as if by fire) is from 1933. Smoke-alarm first attested 1936; smoke-detector from 1957.

smoke (v.)

Old English smocian "to produce smoke, emit smoke," especially as a result of burning, from smoke (n.1). Meaning "to drive out or away or into the open by means of smoke" is attested from 1590s. Meaning "to apply smoke to, to cure (bacon, fish, etc.) by exposure to smoke" is first attested 1590s. In connection with tobacco, "draw fumes from burning into the mouth," first recorded 1604 in James I's "Counterblast to Tobacco." Related: Smoked; smoking. Smoking gun in the figurative sense of "incontestable evidence" is from 1974.

smoke (n.2)

"cigarette," slang, 1882, from smoke (n.1). Also "opium" (1884). Meaning "a spell of smoking tobacco" is recorded from 1835.

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[ditzyblog]

Counterblast to Tobacco

When Sir Walter Raleigh brought tobacco to England, Queen Elizabeth the first was not initially impressed by the smoke. He humoured her however, by answering her question on how much the smoke weighed. He weighed the tobacco, smoked it, weighed the ash and the difference gave the answer and tobacco continued.

King James the first was not humoured. He sent out unsigned flyers stating:

Counterblast…

[assemblyoftheway]

📙ANTHONY WELDON THE TROUBLE MAKER

ANTHONY WELDON STARTED THE LIE!!!!!!!! THAT KING JAMES WAS GAY/HOMOSEXUAL !!!

HIS PICTURE IS BELOW WITH THE REAL KING JAMES!!!!!

James’s Political Enemies

The charge that King James was a homosexual emanated from an old political enemy of the king, Sir Anthony Weldon, Clerk of the Green Cloth in the royal court. Moreover, his family for generations had provided officers for the royal household. However, Weldon was expelled from the court by James in about 1625 for political reasons. Weldon subsequently “swore he would have his day of vengeance.” Curiously, Weldon never confronted the king but waited twenty-five years later to hint that James had effeminate interest in men. Moreover, he also waited until James’s son, Charles I, had been executed in 1649. As we will note in the next section, Weldon not only came to hate James, but also had a racial hatred of the Scottish race from which James sprang.

Another enemy of James was one Guy Fawkes. Under the direction of Jesuit operatives, Fawkes even tried to bomb James and the entire English parliament with thirty-six barrels of gunpowder. There should be no question that James had both political and religious enemies.

QUESTION: I have been told that King James was a homosexual. Is this true?

ANSWER: NO........NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHY DID WELDON LIE? BECAUSE KING JAMES DID NOT KNIGHT HIM....

EXPLANATION: King James I of England, who authorized the translation of the now famous King James Bible, was considered by many to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest, monarchs that England has ever seen.

Through his wisdom and determination he united the warring tribes of Scotland into a unified nation, and then joined England and Scotland to form the foundation for what is now known as the British Empire.

At a time when only the churches of England possessed the Bible in English, King James' desire was that the common people should have the Bible in their native tongue. Thus, in 1603, King James called 54 of history's most learned men together to accomplish this great task. At a time when the leaders of the world wished to keep their subjects in spiritual ignorance, King James offered his subjects the greatest gift that he could give them. Their own copy of the Word of God in English.

James, who was fluent in Latin, Greek, and French, and schooled in Italian and Spanish even wrote a tract entitled "Counterblast to Tobacco",which was written to help thwart the use of tobacco in England

Such a man was sure to have enemies. One such man, ANTHONY WELDON, had to be excluded from the court. Weldon swore vengeance. It was not until 1650, TWENTY-FIVE YEARS after the death of James that Weldon saw his chance. He wrote a paper calling James a homosexual. Obviously, James, being dead, was in no condition to defend himself.

The report was largely ignored since there were still enough people alive who knew it wasn't true. In fact, it lay dormant for years, until recently when it was picked up by Christians who hoped that vilifying King James, would tarnish the Bible that bears his name so that Christians would turn away from God's book to a more "modern" translation.

It seems though, that Weldon's false account is being once again largely ignored by the majority of Christianity with the exception of those with an ulterior motive, such as its author had.

It might also be mentioned here that the Roman Catholic Church was so desperate to keep the true Bible out of the hands of the English people that it attempted to kill King James and all of Parliament in 1605.

In 1605 a Roman Catholic by the name of Guy Fawkes, under the direction of a Jesuit priest by the name of Henry Garnet, was found in the basement of Parliament with thirty-six barrels of gunpowder which he was to use to blow up King James and the entire Parliament. After killing the king, they planned on imprisoning his children, re-establishing England as a state loyal to the Pope and kill all who resisted. Needless to say, the perfect English Bible would have been one of the plot's victims. Fawkes and Garnet and eight other conspirators were caught and hanged.

It seems that those who work so hard to discredit the character of King James join an unholy lot.

James’s Enemies Discredited

Maurice Lee, Jr., a historian published by the University of Illinois Press, says, “Historians can and should ignore the venomous caricature of the king’s person and behavior drawn by Anthony Weldon.” Another historian, Christopher Durston, writes regarding Weldon’s book: “This poisonous piece of literary revenge was to do profound and lasting damage to James’s reputation, as it became the prime source for many subsequent historical assessments whose authors failed to make sufficient allowance for its obvious bias.”

There were several others who hinted that James was a homo-sexual. However, upon examination, in each case, they turn out to be avowed political enemies of James and likely fed upon each other’s gossip. Much could and has been written on this matter. However, Ste-phen Coston quotes a historian who lived much closer to these charges as “despicable and libelous, . . . full of lies, mistakes, and nonsense.”

[thebritishmonarchycouk]

DID YOU KNOW? . As far back as 1604, & well ahead of his time,  King James VI of Scotland & I of England wrote 'A Counterblaste to Tobacco' in which he expressed his distaste for tobacco, particularly tobacco smoking. As such, it is one of the earliest anti-tobacco publications. . . The king wrote; . "Have you not reason then to bee ashamed, & to forbeare this filthie noveltie, so basely grounded, so foolishly received & so grossely mistaken in the right use thereof? In your abuse thereof sinning against God, harming your selves both in persons & goods, & raking also thereby the markes & notes of vanitie upon you: by the custome thereof making your selves to be wondered at by all forraine civil Nations, & by all strangers that come among you, to be scorned & contemned." . "A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, & in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomelesse."  . James VI & I in 1604 . . . #NoSmoking #AntiSmoking #JamesVI&I #JamesIofEngland #JamesVIofScotland #HouseofStuart #History #Monarch #Monarchy #Royals #Royalty #HistoryBuff #HistoryFacts #Thebritishmonarchy #Britishmonarchy #instaquote #England (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoFpBl0FYCv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jeswv2mx5dnl

[pedro-de-pacas]

... encontra tabaco silvestre. Examina a planta e declara: “Nicotiana glauca”. Embora exista a Nicotiana africana, explica, o uso da Nicotiana como fumo tem origem no Novo Mundo, e data de pelo menos dois mil anos.

... Acredita-se que essa planta tenha sido quase onipresente nas Américas no tempo de Cristo. Uma vasilha de cerâmica do século XI mostra um maia fumando um rolo de folhas de tabaco amarradas com um cordão - “sic’ar” é a palavra maia que significa fumar (e pensar que por anos fui um apreciador de cigar, sem sequer imaginar que a origem da palavra era maia!). 

...Colombo, quando chegou ao Novo Mundo, ganhou dos nativos frutos e “certas folhas secas que exalam uma fragrância característica”. As frutas ele comeu, mas como não sabia pra que serviam as folhas, atirou-as ao mar. Poucos anos depois, ao chegar a Cuba e ver nativos fumando, outro explorador, Rodrigo de Jerez, levou o costume para a Espanha - mas quando seus vizinhos viram fumaça a sair-lhe pelo nariz e a boca, entraram em pânico e chamaram a Inquisição. Jerez ficou preso por sete anos. Quando saiu, o hábito de fumar estava na moda entre os espanhóis. 

Oliver Sacks 

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O Nicotiana tabacum disputa com o algodão a posição de cultura não alimentícia mais importante, mas em termos de controvérsia não tem nenhum concorrente. 

... “Como aconteceu com tantas “novas” plantas americanas, houve sérias confusões com os nomes, sendo propostas numerosas possibilidades. Duas décadas depois, o médico John Gerard arriscou uma explicação do ‘Tabaco, ou Meimendro do Peru. Nicolaus Monardus denominou-o Tabacum’, embora acrescentasse que ‘a população da América o chama de Petun’. Os nomes latinos incluíam Sacra herba, Sancta herba e Sanasancta indorum. Mas ele disse: Por alguns é chamada de Nicotiana”. O embaixador francês (Jean Nicot) estava ficando mais intimamente associado ao tabaco. 

...”A condenação mais direta veio de um folheto de 1604, A counterblaste to tobacco, alegando que fumar era “ um costume repugnante ao olho, odioso ao nariz, prejudicial ao cérebro, perigoso aos pulmões.” As pessoas se espantaram com a revelação de que o autor anônimo fora o rei Jaime I, até porque ele criou o primeiro imposto sobre o tabaco. Em certo sentido, o crítico real estava apenas prevendo as atividades das autoridades 400 anos depois, quando o tabaco foi desmascarado pela Reader’s Digest em sua capa de 1952 como o “Maço de Câncer”. 

Bill Laws

(50 Plantas que Mudaram o Rumo da História)