TOBACCO LEAVES 



ing and returning a lighted cigar is now 

 the practice of every civilized country. 



Smoking having been adopted by the 

 upper classes in Spain, was employed by 

 men and women alike. There was no prej- 

 udice against the fair sex enjoying the 

 weed. The countries which learned smok- 

 ing from Spain adopted these views. 

 There was and is no prejudice against 

 women smoking in Portugal, France, Italy, 

 Greece, Turkey, Africa, Asia, Mexico, 

 Central and South America. 



In England the masses were the first to 

 smoke, and the upper classes regarded the 

 habit as vulgar and low. Not until 1820 

 could a gentleman smoke without losing 

 caste, and not until 1885, when the Prin- 

 cess of Wales, now the Queen of England, 

 served cigarettes at luncheons to her own 

 sex, were women allowed to smoke without 

 fear of social ostracism. The English 

 prejudice was adopted by Canada, the 



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