58 A LECTURE OAT TOBACCO. 



happily ever after, as the story-book would say. Some 

 who recognize that smoking inside a coach or omnibus is 

 a nuisance, suppose that it cannot be so regarded in the 

 open air outside. The Manchester Corporation are not of 

 this opinion, for they fine a cabman if he smokes while 

 conveying a passenger.^ The movement of the air 

 often blows the smoke and ashes on those who feel any- 

 thing but grateful for them, and the .pleasure of travel- 

 ling through beautiful scenery is completely destroyed, 

 in the case of those who are made to suffer distressing 

 nausea. 



The smoke-nuisance is worse on the Continent. A 

 few years ago the Statistical Society of Paris reckoned the 

 annual consumption of tobacco in different countries, for 

 every hundred inhabitants, as follows: England, 136^ 

 lbs. (the present amount is 142^ lbs.); France, 178)^ 

 lbs.; Germany, 330 lbs. ; Holland, 441 lbs.; Belgium, 

 55ii<lbs.;&c.2 



Abroad, they are the non-smokers who have special 

 compartments in the railway carriages ; and often it is a 

 great worry to secure one, as they are " few and far 

 between." If you attend an open-air concert, or dine at 

 a restaurant, you are liable to be smoked out. If you go 

 on the verandah of a hotel to enjoy the sweet air and 

 the beauty of the prospect, those who care more for the 



1 " Monthly Letters," p. 235. 



'^ "Monthly Letters," p. 103; compare p. 195. "Whittaker's 

 Almanac," p, 3S4, gives the consumption in England for 35 years. 

 In the United States, during the year ending Midsummer, 1878, 

 1,905,063,000 cigars and 25,312,433 lbs. of tobacco were consumed. 

 ("Monthly Letters," p. 144.) The recent census states that the 

 culture of tobacco is largely on the increase; 638,841 acres (nearly 

 1,000 square miles) are devoted to it. 



