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Doctors in the Ottoman Empire prescribed tobacco as a medicine, though they noted side effects including dizziness, fatigue, dulling of the senses, and an unpleasant taste in the mouth.
Tobacco
Tobacco use and popularization in colonial Europe
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King James I hated tobacco and levied a heavy tariff on every pound brought into England.