Religious Reasons

God gave man dominion over the fish of the sea, and there are many references in the Bible telling man to be a good steward of the Earth.

Pope Urban VII in 1590 gave rise to the world's first known public smoking ban.
- He threatened to excommunicate anyone who used tobacco in any form inside a church.

King James I of England, famous for the King James Bible, was strongly opposed to tobacco use.
- In 1604, he published the pamphlet A Counterblaste to Tobacco which states in part
  Have you not reason then to bee ashamed, and to forbeare this filthie noveltie, so basely grounded, so foolishly received and so grossely mistaken in the right use thereof? In your abuse thereof sinning against God, harming your selves both in persons and goods, and raking also thereby the markes and notes of vanitie upon you: by the custome thereof making your selves to be wondered at by all forraine civil Nations, and by all strangers that come among you, to be scorned and contemned. A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomelesse.