The Memoirs of Jahāngīr (Jahāngīrnāma) 39: Prohibition of Tobacco.
Dwázda-Sála-i Jahángírí; Wáki’át Jahángírí, of the Emperor Jahángír (Elliot & Dowson, extracts) 39
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As the smoking of tobacco had taken very bad effect upon the health and mind of many persons, I ordered that no one should practise the habit. My brother Shah ’Abbas, also being aware of its evil effects, had issued a command against the use of it in Iran. But Khan-i ’Alam was so much addicted to smoking, that he could not abstain from it, but often smoked.