TOBACCO LEAVES 



barism and shame." Its friends repre- 

 sented Vulcan resting by the forge, pipe 

 in mouth, and envied by all the dwellers 

 on Olympus. 



It is now over three hundred years since 

 tobacco got into literature. Who can quote 

 a single line from a literary opponent of 

 the leaf? But Ben Jonson, Spenser, and 

 Sir Walter Raleigh live. With the advent 

 of Charles Lamb, tobacco and its literature 

 has grown both in goodness and abundance. 

 Granted that the use of tobacco affects the 

 mind, who would not welcome back to earth, 

 with their pipes, Ben Jonson, Spenser, 

 Marlowe, Addison, Milton, Fielding, Lamb, 

 Byron, Kingsley, Thackeray, Carlyle, 

 Dickens, and all the other smokers whose 

 works are fragrant with life and truth? 



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