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Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       I

       THE FIRST PIPES OF TOBACCO SMOKED IN ENGLAND ToC

       II

       TOBACCO TRIUMPHANT: SMOKING FASHIONABLE AND UNIVERSAL ToC

       III

       TOBACCO TRIUMPHANT (continued) — SELLERS OF TOBACCO AND PROFESSORS OF SMOKING— ABUSE AND PRAISE OF TOBACCO ToC

       IV

       CAVALIER AND ROUNDHEAD SMOKERS ToC

       V

       SMOKING IN THE RESTORATION PERIOD ToC

       VI

       SMOKING UNDER KING WILLIAM III AND QUEEN ANNE ToC

       VII

       SMOKING UNFASHIONABLE: EARLY GEORGIAN DAYS ToC

       VIII

       SMOKING UNFASHIONABLE (continued) : LATER GEORGIAN DAYS ToC

       IX

       SIGNS OF REVIVAL ToC

       X

       EARLY VICTORIAN DAYS ToC

       XI

       LATER VICTORIAN DAYS ToC

       XII

       SMOKING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ToC

       XIII

       SMOKING BY WOMEN ToC

       XIV

       SMOKING IN CHURCH ToC

       XV

       TOBACCONISTS' SIGNS ToC

       INDEX

PREFACE

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      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 society in this country in an amazingly short space of time after smoking was first practised for pleasure, and retained its ascendancy for no inconsiderable period. Signs of decline are to be observed during the latter part of the seventeenth century; and in the course of its successor smoking fell more and more under the ban of fashion. Early in the nineteenth century tobacco-smoking had reached its nadir from the social point of view. Then came the introduction of the cigar and the revival of smoking in the circles from which it had long been almost entirely absent. The practice was hedged about and obstructed by a host of restrictions and conventions, but as the nineteenth century advanced the triumphant progress of tobacco became more and more marked. The introduction of the cigarette completed what the cigar had begun; barriers and prejudices crumbled and disappeared with increasing rapidity; until at the present day tobacco-smoking in England—by pipe or cigar or cigarette—is more general, more continuous, and more free from conventional restrictions than at any period since the early days of its triumph in the first decades of the seventeenth century.

      The tracing and recording of this social history of the smoking-habit, touching as it does so many interesting points and details of domestic manners and customs, has been a task of peculiar pleasure. To me it has been a labour of love; but no one can be more conscious of the many imperfections of these pages than I am.

      I should like to add that I am indebted to Mr. Vernon Rendall, editor of The Athenæum, for a number of valuable references and suggestions.

      G.L.A.

      Haywards Heath.

       September 1914.