Chapter 4

TOBACCO IN EUROPE.

Introduction -- The Original Importer -- Wonderful Cures -- How the Herb grew in Reputation -- Difference of Opinion -- A Smoker's Rhapsody -- Old Smokers -- The Queen Herb -- Drinking Tobacco -- Tobacco on the Stage -- Shakespeare on Tobacco -- Smoking Taught -- Ben Jonson on the Weed -- Curative Qualities -- Modes of Use -- Held up to Ridicule -- Tirades against Tobacco -- Tobacco Selling -- Royal Haters of Tobacco -- Old Customs -- A Racy Poem -- A Smoking Divine........................................................ 80