Index 



325 



schaum, 152, 165 ; clay, 164 ; 



wooden, 153 

 Plague, Great, tobacco in, 78 

 Plant, names of tobacco, 41 ; 



cultivation, loi, 182 

 Poetry of tobacco, 229 

 Poison, tobacco as, so tea and 



coffee, 301 

 Politics and smoking, 240, 246, 



257. 273, 279 

 Polynesia, tobacco in, 49 

 Popes and tobacco, 35, 38, 40, 



2SS 



Popular use of tobacco, increase 



of, 90 

 Population, amount consumed per 



head in England, 212 ; in 



Europe, 216 

 Prehistoric smoking, 4, 18, 139 

 Price of tobacco, 60, 68, 85, 117, 



134, 191. 

 Prophylactic virtues of tobacco, 



304 

 Puritans and tobacco, 71 

 Purity of tobacco, Lancet on, 133, 



309 



Railways, smoking on, first per- 

 mitted, 93 

 Raleigh and tobacco, 17, 25, 27, 



237 

 Rapid increase of smoking in 



nineteenth century, 76, 2U 

 Religious origin of smoking, 2, 5, 



138 

 Renascence of smoking, 91 

 ' Returns,' 125 

 Revenue from tobacco, 212 

 Richardson, SirB.W,, on smoking, 



3" 

 Ruskin, 252 

 Russia, tobacco in, 36, 45 



Sacrificial origin of smoking, 2 

 Satanic origin of tobacco, 36, 221, 



226 

 School for smoking, 47, 62, 80 

 Scott's, Sir Walter, meerschaum, 



153 

 Shag, 125 

 Shiraz, 116 



Siam, tobacco in, 51 



Silence of tobacco, Carlyle on, 

 318 



Sleights of smoking, 63 



Smoke from mouth blue, 299 



Smoking, effects of, 303, 309 



Smoking : first seen by Columbus, 

 6 ; described, 7 ; religious origin 

 of, 2 ; persecution for, 35 



Smoking in England before six- 

 teenth century, 19 ; introduction, 

 57 ; popularity under James I., 

 61 ; the fashion, 81 ; discussed 

 by Parliament, 70 j decline, 86 ; 

 revival, go, 197 



Snuff: Indian mode of taking, 259; 

 introduced into Europe, 258 ; 

 fashionable in France, 261 ; in 

 England, 85, 264 ; age of snuff, 

 263 ; in Ireland, 261 ; decline, 

 276 



Snuff and clergy, 35, 260, 283 



Snuff and statesmanship, 247 



Snuff-boxes, 266 



Snuffers, famous, 271 



Snuff, manufacture of, 261, ;68, 

 274 



Snuff, medical uses of, 260, 270 



Soil for tobacco culture, lOO 



Sowing tobacco, loi 



Spain, smoking in, 44 



Spenser and tobacco, 237 



Spurgeon, 254 



Status of smoking, social, 65, 92 



Stevenson, R. L. , 253 



Stoppers, tobacco, 161 



Storing tobacco, 124 



' Stripping ' leaf, 122 



'Sweating' or curing tobacco, 106 



Swinburne, Algernon, 251 



Switzerland, tobacco in, 37 ; pipes 

 of, 156 



Talleyrand on snuff, 247 

 Teaching to smoke, 62, 79 

 Tennyson's love for tobacco, 249 

 Theology and tobacco, 35, 81, 



87, 241, 243, 254, 260, 283 

 Thompson, Sir Hy., on cigarettes, 



205 

 ' Throat, smoker's,' 303 



