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Kapnoraeter, 295 

 King of smokers, 285 

 King Edward VII. a smoker, 256 ; 

 royal smokers, 257 



Ladies, smoking by, 66, 95 

 Lamb, Charles, on tobacco, 244, 



310 

 Lancet on cigarettes, 306 ; pipes, 



17s ; pure tobacco, 310; benefits 



of tobacco, 309 

 Lang's, Andrew, legend of tobacco, 



233 

 Lankester, Professor, on smoking, 



312 

 Latakia, 116 

 Laws against smoking, 35, 45, 77, 



293 

 Leaf tobacco, varieties of, 113; 

 curing, 106 ; grades of, 104 ; 

 light and dark, 114, 135 ; nature 

 of, 107; packing, no; price 

 of, 117; imports, 117; manu- 

 facturing, 118 

 Legend, Indian, of tobacco, 11, 



142, 232 

 Literature of tobacco, 2l5 

 Locke, John, on tobacco, 239 

 Longfellow : Indian pipes, 143 

 Low status of smoking, eighteenth 



century, 86 

 Lowell in praise of tobacco, 229 

 Lytton in praise of tobacco, 232, 

 252 



Mahomet and tobacco, 37, 233 

 Manila cigars, 189 

 Manufacture: of leaf, 120; pipes, 



164 ; cigars, 184 ; cigarettes, 



197 

 Mazzini smokes out assassins, 248 

 Medical opinions of tobacco, 219, 



233, 3" 

 Medicine, tobacco as, 28, 259, 



270, 296 

 Meerschaum, 152, 166 

 Meredith, George, on tobacco, 254 

 Mexico, tobacco in, 47 

 Microbes produce flavour of 



tobacco, 108 

 Milton and tobacco, 24 



Mixtures, smoking, I2<; 

 Moisture in tobacco, 134 

 Moli^re on snuff, 271 

 Monopoly of tobacco: in England, 



34 ; abroad, 214 

 Morality of smoking, 314 

 Mouth, smoke from, gray, 299 

 Mouthpieces, 172 



Napoleon's attempt to smoke, 246 



Narghile, 158 



National smoking, Fourier and 



Balzac on, 55 

 Nature of tobacco leaf, 107 

 Navy-cut, 127 

 Negrohead, 131 

 Newton, Isaac, 239 

 Nicot introduces tobacco into 



France, 13 

 Nicotiana Tabacum, 100 

 Nicotine, 297 

 Nineteenth century, revival of 



smoking in, 90 



Opposition to smoking in England, 



Origin of smoking, religious, 2, 5 

 Origin of tobacco, various accounts 



of, 32, 209, 221, 225, 233 

 Overdose of tobacco, 302 

 Ovid of tobacco, 224 



Packeting tobacco, 131 



Parliament and tobacco, 33, 70, 81 



Parr, Dr., 243 



Pope, 255 



Penalties of smoking, 38 



Penn and tobacco, 242 



Pereira, Dr., on tobacco, 311 



Persecution of smoking, 32, 36, 40 



Persia, tobacco in, 37, 52 



Persian legend, 233 



Philippines, tobacco in, 49, 189 



Pipes, cleaning of, 177 ; colourers 

 of, 289 



Pipes, Lancet on choosing, 175 



Pipes, varieties of, 1 39 ; manu- 

 facture of, 162 ; evolution of, 

 2, 5, 138; first English, 60,147; 

 Indian stone pipes, 141 ; fairy 

 and elfin pipes, 14S; meer- 



