3O THE PHILOSOPHY OF SMOKING. 



Happy thrice, and thrice agen, 

 Happiest he of happy men, 

 Who when agen the night returns, 

 When agen the taper burns ; 

 When agen the cricket's gay 

 (Little cricket full of play), 

 Can afford his tube to feed 

 With the fragrant Indian weed f 

 Pleasure for a nose divine, 

 Incense of the god of wine. 

 Happy thrice, and thrice agen 

 Happiest he of happy men. 



ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE (1736). 



BULWER-LYTTON ON 

 TOBACCO SMOKING. 



HE who doth not smoke hath either 

 known no great griefs, or refuseth himself 

 the softest consolation, next to that which 

 comes from heaven. " What softer than 

 a woman ? " whispers the young reader. 



Young reader, woman teases as well as 

 consoles. Woman makes half the sorrows 

 which she boasts the privilege to soothe. 



Woman consoles us, it is true, while 

 we are young and handsome; when we 



