A genial ramble through the story of the Indian weed: how smoking spread from the New World across Elizabethan England and the whole globe, its supposed antiquity, smoking customs in Japan, pipes, the tobacco trade and a fund of social gossip. Chapters on health quote early germ experiments with approval, and its medical views are those of a 1909 enthusiast, not of modern science.
A period piece of social history and anecdote for anyone curious about how earlier generations thought about tobacco. Download the free EPUB.