Tobacco pouch story "The Adventure of Black Peter". Along with boots, tobacco pouches were the one of the first uses of the zip. Sir Walter Raleigh, an English explorer and one of the first to popularise tobacco smoking in England, kept a tobacco pouch during his final imprisonment with a Latin inscription: "Comes meus fuit in illo miserrimo tempore" ("It was my companion at that most miserable time"). Commercial tobacco pouches have been produced in order to provide legitimacy to counterfeit tobacco. £8million of tobacco pouches were seized in Merseyside in 2012. Tobacco pouches, fake or genuine, have also been the target
Navigation Acts (12 Cha. II c. 32), which bans the export of wool and wool-processing materials, and the Tobacco Planting and Sowing Act 1660 (12 Cha. II c. 34), which prohibits growing tobacco in England and Ireland. The former act was intended to encourage domestic woolen manufacturing by increasing the availability of domestic raw materials; the latter act was passed to limit competition with the colonies and protect the plantations' main crop, as well as to protect this regulated royal revenue stream. With the kingdoms of England and Scotland still separate, passage of the English act lead to the passage of a