1TO DEFENCE OF SMOKING. 



complacently regarding the soap-like bubbles, the joint pro- 

 duction of himself and neighbor. It appeared to be a sign 

 of special friendliness and Idndly feeling to squirt into the 

 same hole." 



"We give an engraving of a kind of pipe used by the 

 natives of interior Africa. It is made of clay, and holds but 

 a small portion of the weed. The natives are great smokers 



and indulge in it almost 

 constantly, but their love 

 for it can hardly exceed 

 that of the more hardy 

 Laplanders, who are 

 AFRICAN PIPE. described as passion- 



ately fond of the plant." 



Nothing is so indispensable as tobacco to their existence. A 

 Laplander who cannot get Tobacco sucks chips of a barrel or 

 pieces of anything else which has contained it. Tobacco- 

 gives the Laplanders a pleasure which often rises to ecstacy. 

 They both chew and smoke, and they are certainly the dirti- 

 est chewers in the world. When they chew they spit in 

 their hands, then raise them to their nose that they may 

 inhale from the saliva the irritating principles of the plant. 

 Thus they satisfy two senses at the same time. They regu- 

 larly smoke after their meals. If their supply of Tobacco 

 falls short, they sit down in a circle and pass the pipe round, 

 o that every one in his turn may have a whiff.* 



"A Painter's Camp in the Highlands" defends the custom 

 of smoking in the following well chosen words : 



"People who don't smoke especially ladies are exceed- 

 ingly unfair and unjust to those who do. The reader has, I 

 daresay, amongst his acquaintances ladies who, on hearing 

 any habitual cigar-smoker spoken of, are always ready to 

 exclaim against the enormity of such an expensive and use- 

 less indulgence; and the cost of Tobacco-smoking is generally 

 cited by its enemies as one of the strongest reasons for its 

 general discontinuance. One would imagine, to hear these 



Reynard, In his "Travels in Lapland," says of the nse of tobacco : "We interrogated our 

 Laplander upon many subjects. We asked him what he had given his wife at thrir marriage. 

 Be told us that she had been very expensive to him during his courtship, having cost him 

 two pounds weight of tobacco and four or five pints of brandy." 



