Editing Pope Urban VII (section)

===Activities===
Urban VII's short reign gave rise to the world's first known public [[smoking ban]], as he threatened to excommunicate anyone who "took [[tobacco]] in the porchway of or inside a church, whether it be by chewing it, smoking it with a pipe or sniffing it in powdered form through the nose".<ref>{{cite web|title=Public smoking ban: Europe on the move|url=http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/eurheartj/press_releases/freepdf/ehl266.pdf|publisher=European Society of Cardiology|year=2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524082354/http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/eurheartj/press_releases/freepdf/ehl266.pdf|archive-date=24 May 2011}}</ref>

Urban VII was known for his charity to the poor. He subsidized Roman [[bakers]] so they could sell bread below cost, and restricted the spending on luxury items for members of his court. He subsidized public works projects throughout the [[Papal States]]. Urban VII was strictly against [[nepotism]] and he forbade it within the [[Roman Curia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://saints.sqpn.com/pope-urban-vii/|title=Pope Urban VII|publisher=Saints SQPN|date=4 April 2012|access-date=12 February 2015}}</ref>