CHAPTER XI 



CIGARETTES 



The cigarette preceded the cigar — Modern use dates from 1840 

 — Brought to England during Crimean War — Manufacture 

 forty years ago very small — Rice-paper manufacture — Hand- 

 made cigarettes — By machinery — The tobacco and flavour- 

 ing — Machine made — Speed and cost — Turkish cigarettes — 

 Egyptian cigarettes — French cigarettes — Modern and recent 

 popularity — Enormous consumption — Cigarette additional 

 to pipe or cigar — Differs from smoking — Its hygienic aspect 

 — Opinion of Sir Henry Thompson. 



As we have shown, the original cigar consisted of 

 tobacco-leaves enrolled in an outer covering of 

 maize or other dried leaves, being thus the originator 

 of the modern cigarette. Nothing has been more 

 notable in the social changes of the last few years 

 than the extent to which the cigarette has increased 

 in popular use. The modern cigarette seems to have 

 originated in Spain, where maize or other suitable 

 vegetable envelopes for the tobacco being unobtain- 

 able, a thin sheet of paper was substituted. Thus 

 the cigar and cigarette assumed distinct forms. A 

 Spanish proverb declares that ' a papelitos (a paper 

 cigar), a glass of clear water, and a kiss from a pretty 

 girl will sustain a man for a whole day.' 



