TOBACCO. 34] 



James the First wrote a treatise expressh 

 against it, entitled, A Counterblast to To- 

 bacco. By a bull of Pope Urban the Eighth, 

 such are excommunicated as take tobacco in 

 churches. 



The smoking of tobacco is carried to such 

 an excess by the Turks, that they are rarely 

 to be seen without a pipe, and never enter 

 into business without smoking, which often 

 gives them an advantage over the Christians 

 with whom they have either commercial or 

 political transactions, as they smoke a consi- 

 derable time and reflect before giving a reply 

 to any question. To visit them on business 

 previously to their morning pipe, would only 

 subject the intruder to their caprice and ill- 

 humour. An ingenious friend, who has re- 

 sided several years in Constantinople, and 

 had opportunities of associating with the 

 higher classes of that city, assures us that 

 two thousand pounds is no uncommon price 

 for a Turk to give for the amber mouth-piece 

 of a tobacco pipe, exclusive of the bowl or 

 the pipe, the latter of which is made of a 

 branch of the jasmine tree, for the summer 

 use, while those for winter smoking are uni- 

 formly made of the branches of the cherry 

 tree. In order to obtain tlieni of a regular 



