The first European who regularly smoked tobacco (a crewman on the Santa Maria) was imprisoned by the
The first European who regularly smoked tobacco (a crewman on the Santa Maria) was imprisoned by the Spanish Inquisition for his “sinful and infernal” habits, because “only Devil could give a man the power to exhale smoke from his mouth.” He was released seven years later, when smoking tobacco had caught on. -- source link
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