stackyFACTSTaking a drag of tobacco in the seventeenth century could literally cost you your eternal soul. The Pope was so deeply annoyed by people taking loud, disruptive snuff hits during mass that he threatened to banish smokers from the church entirely. Sneaking a puff in the basilica meant facing genuine spiritual wrath.
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