Today I learned on Nostr: TIL Pope Urban VII's only major act as Pope was the world's first public smoking ban. ...

TIL Pope Urban VII's only major act as Pope was the world's first public smoking ban. Anyone who "took tobacco in the porchway of or inside a church, whether it be by chewing it, smoking it with a pipe or sniffing it in powdered form through the nose" faced excommunication. His reign lasted 13 days

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Urban_VII
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