History of tobacco brought to Spain for its flowers, but "Now we use it to a greater extent for the sake of its virtues than for its beauty". John Hawkins was the first to bring tobacco seeds to England. William Harrison's "English Chronology" mentions tobacco smoking in the country as of 1573, before Sir Walter Raleigh brought the first "Virginia" tobacco to Europe from the Roanoke Colony, referring to it as "tobah" as early as 1578. In 1595 Anthony Chute published "Tabaco", which repeated earlier arguments about the benefits of the plant and emphasised the health-giving properties of pipe-smoking. The importation of tobacco
Unionism in England in 2014 to coincide with the referendum on Scottish independence, which found that 70% of voters in England supported the continuation of the Union with Scotland. Modern political issues such as the West Lothian question and the use of English tax money to subsidise other countries in the Union have acted as restraints on the traditionally high Unionist sentiment in England. The comfortable status of the Union in England is reflected by a lower level of controversy surrounding the use of British national symbols (such as the Union flag) in England than is seen in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Events