IX. SIGNS OF REVIVAL 137

X. EARLY VICTORIAN DAYS 155

XI. LATER VICTORIAN DAYS 179

XII. SMOKING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 193

XIII. SMOKING BY WOMEN 205

XIV. SMOKING IN CHURCH 225

XV. TOBACCONISTS' SIGNS 235

INDEX 251




I

THE FIRST PIPES OF TOBACCO SMOKED IN ENGLAND

Before the wine of sunny Rhine, or even Madam Clicquot's,
Let all men praise, with loud hurras, this panacea of Nicot's.
The debt confess, though none the less they love the grape and barley,
Which Frenchmen owe to good Nicot, and Englishmen to Raleigh.

DEAN HOLE.