The first European smoker was arrested because people thought he was possessed by the devil!
The Spanish Inquisition imprisoned him for his sinful habit, because they believed only the devil could allow a man to exhale smoke. Jerez was imprisoned for seven years and by the time he was released the act of smoking had caught on throughout Spain.
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Shortly before passing away, he awoke from a coma and quietly whispered to his very religious and faithful wife Mina, who had been keeping a vigil all night by his side: “It is very beautiful over there…”
I have seen fear, and it is orange.
The Aventador shimmies through the wheel and pedals, picking out every ridge in the ice, whuffing out V12 defiance that echoes around the entire valley. It’s childish, pointless, noisy and antisocial. It is also sublime. Heaven really is a place on Earth, and it smells of unburned Super. And it gets better: the track is now open. (via Top Gear On Ice: Lambo Aventador - BBC Top Gear)
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