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Two Greenwich Pensioners sitting in the garden of a tavern, near the Hospital, a woman behind listening to them, another Pensioner in the distance on the right. Mezzotint, 1791.

Men smoking, drinking and singing in a dingy smoke den. Engraving by J. Goldar after E. van Heemskerk.

A Greenwich pensioner, filling a pipe with tobacco, a tankard of ale at his elbow. Engraving by J. Jenkins after M. W. Sharp.

The interior of a dingy smoke den where groups of men smoke, drink and play cards. Engraving by F. del Pedro, 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.

The manufacture of tobacco with leaves being sorted, dried, cured and pressed. Engraving, c. 1750.

Tobacco (Nicotiana sp.): flowering stem with separate leaf. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.

A man on horseback surveys his house in a tobacco plantation in Cuba. Tinted lithograph, mid-19th century.

A tobacco plantation in the Caribbean islands, with black workers and a white overseer. Engraving, 1683.

A man blowing out clouds of smoke from a long pipe, with a tobacco plant to his right. Halftone, c. 1890, after a woodcut, c. 1616.

M0002412: A boy holding a cigar, Thailand

A man sits at a table lighting his pipe. Etching by D. Deuchar (?) after A. van Ostade (?).

Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist

Strong drink and tobacco smoke : the structure, growth, and uses of malt, hops, yeast, and tobacco / by Henry P. Prescott.

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M0002412: A boy holding a cigar, Thailand

A man sits at a table lighting his pipe. Etching by D. Deuchar (?) after A. van Ostade (?).

The interior of a dingy smoke den where groups of men smoke, drink and play cards. Engraving by F. del Pedro, 18th century, after a painting by D. Teniers, the younger.

Paton, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917-1993), Pharmacologist

Strong drink and tobacco smoke : the structure, growth, and uses of malt, hops, yeast, and tobacco / by Henry P. Prescott.