100 TOBACCO FACTS. 



AGES ATTAINED BY GREAT 

 SMOKERS. 



INVETERATE smokers have reached 

 very great ages. Hobbes, who smoked 

 twelve pipes a day at Chatsworth, at- 

 tained the age of 92 ; Izaak Walton, 90; 

 Dr. Carr, 78; all devoted lovers of the 

 pipe ; and Dr. Isaac Barrow called tobacco 

 his " panpharmacon." 



In 1769, died Abraham Favrot, a Swiss 

 baker, aged 104; to the last he walked 

 firmly, read without spectacles, and al- 

 ways had a pipe in his mouth. 



In 1845, died Pheasy Molly, of Buxton, 

 Derbyshire, aged 96 ; she was burned to 

 death, her clothes becoming ignited while 

 lighting her pipe at the fire. 



In 1856, there died at Wellbury, North 

 Riding of Yorkshire, Jane Garbutt, aged 

 no; she retained her faculties and en- 

 joyed her pipe to the last, She had 

 smoked " very nigh a hundred years." 



