St Nicotine of the Peace Pipe

Tobacco smoking thought much of in Elizabeth’s reign—Drawing the smoke into the lungs and ejecting it through the nostrils provokes hilarity in the city—Sir John Beaumont’s Meta...

Carlyle as a persistent preacher of the gospel of silence with his pipe—Frederick the Great’s Tobacco Parliament—Carlyle’s early experience in smoking and his first pinch of snu...

Columbus secures Queen Isabel’s good-will and help—Overcomes all difficulties and sets sail in three small vessels from Palos on his great enterprise westward—Mutiny suppressed—...

The Chancellor of the Exchequer on the consumption of tobacco—His condemnation of the smoking habit by those who have enough to eat—Board of Trade returns—Statistics on the past...

Differences of temperament interfere with general enjoyment of the weed—Ground upon which all can agree—Its germicidal action demonstrated in laboratory experiments—Faith of our...

The beginnings of history—Ancestor worship—Man’s instinctive craving for narcotics and stimulants—Ancient historic allusions to smoking or burning of vegetable substances—Lieut....

The Japanese—Marco Polo’s mention of Japan and its people—Pinto, Portugal’s pioneer in eastern seas—Lands at Nagasaki in 1545—Friendly reception—News of the event reaches Manila...

The late Poet Laureate’s (Tennyson) love of tobacco-smoking—Science detects poisonous elements in the exotic—The philosophy of smoking—The only thing in life that fumes without...

George Wither’s song on tobacco-smoking—Undergoes numerous alterations by later writers—Mr. Chappell, through Mr. Payne Collier, traces the original song to Wither—Bishop Fletch...

Various kinds and sources of supply—Qualities due to climate, soil or other causes—Natural qualities determine destination—Strong kinds find favour in North America, mild in Eur...

Let me adore with my thrice happy pen The sweet and sole delight of mortal men; The cornucopia of all earthly pleasure, Where bankrupt nature hath consumed her treasure; A worth...

A few more whiffs from my cigar And then in Fancy’s airy car Have with thee to the skies. How oft the fragrant smoke upcurl’d Hath borne me from this little world And all that i...

The white man landed—need the rest be told? The new world stretch’d its dusk hand to the old. Each was to each a marvel, and the tie Of wonder warmed to better sympathy.

But oh, what witchcraft of a stronger kind, Or cause too deep for human search to find, Makes earth-born weeds imperial man enslave, Not little souls, but e’en the wise and brave?

Ye hot, ye cold, ye Rheumatick draw nigh; In this rich leafe a sovereign dose doth lie. We’ll cure ye all; Physick ye need not want, Here, ’tis i’ th’ gummy inside of a plant.

Like Horace’s greybeard, we are all more or less prone to look lovingly towards the past, to regard the days of our forefathers as the good old times in which they played their...

Extending our survey to Japan we come among a people who interest us greatly in many ways. Their dress is neat and picturesque, their personal appearance pleasing, and closer ac...

The pungent, nose-refreshing weed, Which, whether pulverised, it gain A speedy passage to the brain, Or, whether touched with fire, it rise In circling eddies to the skies, Does...

Ancient and delightful George Wither, while suffering for conscience’ sake imprisonment in the Marshalsea, found a never-failing comfort in his beloved Indian weed. Its soothing...

The various kinds of tobacco and the sources of supply are exceedingly numerous. Every country, indeed, has attempted to cultivate the plant and reap a share of the rich harvest...