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onslaught on tea-drinking:

"In the eighteenth century, things began to change and social commentators were criticizing tea, not as a drink but as an evil social force. In 1757, Jonas Hanway (wrote) an extremely damning essay on tea ... It was not so much the tea that he condemned but the cost of the tea and the time taken to brew and drink it."