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A TOBACCO WORLD. 



revolting to society, by offending more senses as well as 

 more principles than one.' " 



Mantegazza, one of the most brilliant of all writers on 

 tobacco, in alluding to the enchantment of the " weed," 

 says : 



" If a winged inhabitant of some remote world felt the 

 impulse to traverse space, and, with an astronomical map, to 

 fly round our planetary system, he would at once recognize 

 the earth by the odor of tobacco which it exhales, forasmuch 



MODERN SMOKERS. 



as all known nations smoke the nicotian herb. And thou- 

 sands and thousands of men, if compelled to limit themselves 

 to a single nervous aliment, would relinquish wine and 

 coffee, opium and brandy, and cling fondly to the precious 

 narcotic leaf. Before Columbus, tobacco was not smoked 

 except in America ; and now, after a lapse of a few centuries 

 in the furthest part of China and in Japan, in the island of 

 Oceanica as in Lapland and Siberia, rises from the hut of the 

 savage and from the palace of the prince, along with the 

 smoke of the fireplace, where man bakes his bread and warms 

 his heart, another odorous smoke, which man inhales and 



