212 A TOBACCO WORLD. 
revolting to society, by offending more senses as well as 
mone principles than one.’” 
Mantegazza, one of the most brilliant of all writers on 
tobacco, in alluding to the enchantment of the “ weed,” 
says :— 
“If a winged inhabitant of some remote world felt the 
impulse to traverse space, and, with an astronomical map, to 
fly round our planetary system, he would at once recognize 
the earth by the odor of tobacco which it exhales, forasmuch 
MODERN SMOKERS. 
as all known nations smoke the nicotian herb. And thou- 
sands and thousands of men, if compelled to limit themselves 
to a single nervous aliment, would relinquish wine and 
coffee, opium and brandy, and cling fondly to the precious 
narcotic leaf. Before Columbus, tobacco was not smoked 
except in America; and now, after a lapse of a few centuries 
in the furthest part of China and in Japan, in the island of 
Oceanica as in Lapland and Siberia, rises from the hut of the 
savage and from the palace of the prince, along with the 
smoke of the fireplace, where man bakes his bread and warms 
his heart, another odorous smoke; which man inhales and 
