Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Poem on the Use of Tobacco
This noxious plant now used so much by man Was found at tobago in Yucatan; Its name, tobacco, it is said to take From this same fact, if I do not mistake.
Its first appearance every eye offends, And to the nose a noxious odor sends; It harms the brain, is nauseous to the taste, Injures the lungs, and does the ?uids waste; Its horrid fume is like the stygian smoke, Emitted from a hole in Hades broke. And yet this weed, with deadly poison fraught, More human minds has into bondage brought, More tastes depraved.
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