Tobacco : its use and abuse / by Louis Silberberg.

  • Silberberg, Louis.
Date:
1863
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Tobacco : its use and abuse / by Louis Silberberg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dust, and refuse of the manufactory. Hence the increased consumption of foreign manufactured cigars, the consequent rise in the price, and this crusade against the Tobacco Duties. Smoking has become an institu¬ tion—a necessity; and what but a few years ago was the luxury of the rich, is now the solace of over¬ worked clerks and others, whose daily employment binds them to desk or warehouse for the greater part of the day. The rapid rise in the price of cigars has led to the most extensive use of the short pipe; but the evil of the short pipe
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