TOBACCO FACTS. IOI 



Wadd, in his Comments on Corpulency, 

 mentions an aged Effendi, " whose back 

 \vas bent like a bow, and who was in the 

 habit of taking daily four ounces of rice, 

 thirty cups of coffee, three grains of 

 opium, besides smoking sixty pipes of 

 tobacco." Mr. Chatto, in his amusing 

 Paper of Tobacco, relates that some time 

 ago there was living at Hildhausen, in 

 Silesia, a certain Heinrich Hertz, aged 

 142, who had been a tobacco-taker from 

 his youth and still continued to smoke a 

 pipe or two every day. 



Although the lovers of smoking have 

 pressed Old Parr into their evidence in 

 its favor, they must yield to the authority 

 of Taylor, the Water-Poet, who in his 

 Old, Old, very Old Man ; or, the Age 

 and Life of Thomas Parr, says : 



" He had but little time to waste, 

 Or at the ale-house, huff-cap ale to taste ; 

 Nor did he ever hunt a tavern fox ; 

 Ne'er knew a coach, tobacco" etc. 



