Summarising the need for Tobbaco in 16th Century.

Despite King James' loathing of smoking tobacco, the people of 17th century England found it the height of fashion. He described it as "A custom loathsome to the eye, hatefull to the nose, harmfull to the brain..", but they saw it as elegant, fashionable, even healthy. The supply of tobacco from the Virginia colony was plentiful, which brought the price down and the demand up. Then once it was cheap and easily bought, everyone was able to enjoy it. Not to mention that fact that the doctors thought it was healthy, and encouraged everyone to partake in it, calling it a "wonder drug". I also think the fact that the drug was from the new world greatly increased its psycological appeal to the English. Since they themselves could not go to the new world, they could at least sample one of the products of the land they might not ever see.