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Tea and the Crown
When tea initially came to England, it was exotic and expensive. Charles II considered the coffee houses to be dangerous source of subversive activities. There were raging debates about whether tea was wholesome or a blight on moral and nutritional health. Critics viewed the habit of tea drinking amongst the working traffic as stifling to country's economic growth. But Samuel Johnson argued that tea was health giving and should be drunk in excess.
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