74 TOBACCO : ITS HISTORY. 



also added his testimony to this lead-poi soiling in 

 " brown rappee." During the last ten years the 

 Commissioners of Excise have made 368 seizures, 

 and instituted 203 prosecutions, for offences con- 

 nected with tobacco : — ■ 



'*' We would undertake," writes Dr. Hassall, " to make 

 as many seizures, or rather detections, of tobacco adul- 

 terated in one or other of its forms, in the space of three 

 months as are recorded in the above return, which ex- 

 tends over a period of ten years." * 



This opinion, the higher order of smokers will 

 be glad to hear, does not extend to cigars ; for 

 the learned doctor states that all the cigars sold 

 in shops are manufactured fi'om the genuine 

 tobacco-leaf, after examining fifty-seven samples 

 purchased in different parts of London. t 



In connection with this important subject, I 

 think it proper to insert here a piece of informa- 

 tion given by Mr. Johnston in his ' Chemistry 

 of Life : '— 



" I insert, in the form of a note, a reference to a use of 

 tobacco, of which I can scarcely speak with confidence. 

 It is said to be employed by unprincipled private brewers 



* Tricks of Trade, which, by all means, read. 

 t Tricks of Trade, p. 178. 



