CHAPTER III 

 TOBACCO'S WORLD TRIUMPH 



Jesuits and smoking — Uselessness of persecution — Names of 

 tobacco — Progress of tobacco and snuff in France — In Hol- 

 land — Spain — Italy — British navy — Italy freed by tobacco — 

 In Russia forbidden, and afterwards enforced by Peter the 

 Great — Tobacco among Esquimaux — Red Indians — Mexi- 

 cans — In South America and Cuba — Polynesia — Philippines 

 — Japan — China — Siam — Burma — India — Curious Hima- 

 laya pipe — In Persia and Turkey — Mohammedanism and 

 smoking — In Africa — Curious modes — Fourier and Balzac 

 on national smoking. 



We have seen how tobacco was discovered with the 

 New World, how the practice of smoking was intro- 

 duced into Europe and Asia, and the opposition it 

 encountered. More pleasant is the duty of narrating 

 its final and lasting triumph. 



All that fanatical ingenuity of reasoning and of 

 science could do was done to dissuade man from 

 the embrace of the gorging fiend. The terrors of the 

 law were invoked by the princes of every nation to 

 prevent the hated weed and its devilish practice 

 settling in their domains. It was death to inhale the 

 smoke of this American herb, and mutilation to snuff 

 its powdered leaves. Modern smokers do not realize 

 the penalties their forefathers dared for the sake of 



