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Title: The Social History of Smoking

Author: G. L. Apperson

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THE

SOCIAL HISTORY

OF SMOKING

_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_

BYGONE LONDON LIFE

THE

SOCIAL HISTORY

OF SMOKING

BY G.L. APPERSON, I.S.O.

LONDON
MARTIN SECKER
NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET
ADELPHI

_First published 1914_

PRINTED AT
THE BALLANTYNE PRESS
LONDON

TO

J.H.M. AND R.W.B.

GOOD FRIENDS AND

GOOD SMOKERS

BOTH

PREFACE

This is the first attempt to write the history of smoking in this
country from the social point of view. There have been many books
written about tobacco--F.W. Fairholt's "History of Tobacco," 1859, and
the "Tobacco" (1857) of Andrew Steinmetz, are still valuable
authorities--but hitherto no one has told the story of the
fluctuations of fashion in respect of the practice of smoking.

Much that is fully and well treated in such a work as Fairholt's
"History" is ignored in the following pages. I have tried to confine
myself strictly to the changes in the attitude of society towards
smoking, and to such historical and social sidelights as serve to
illuminate that theme.

The tobacco-pipe was popular among every section of