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The Social History of Smoking in Britain and Europe
The article summarizes tobacco’s rise from Elizabethan fashion to modern society, noting Shakespeare’s era, professors of smoking, and the shift from pipes to cigars and snuff. It cites James I’s denunciation, Queen Elizabeth I’s era, and the role of officers, writers like Carlyle and Tennyson, and the spread of cigarettes in the 19th century.
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St- Louis
Walter Raleigh
England
Dayax
Chapman
Shakespeare
Spencer
Ben Jonson
Jonson
Dronson
St. Paul’s
London
Uxbridge
Elizabeth
Austria
Alphonso
Spain
Margherita
Italy
Amelia
Portugal
Victoria
Dahomey
James I
James
Charles T
New England
Connecticut
Queen Victoria
Prince Regent
Lord Petersham
Athenaeum Club
Doctor Hawtree
House Committee
Quilip
Dickens
Lord Rawdon
Vanity Fair
Carlyle
Tennyson
Alfred
Charles Lamb
Lauranca ‘Oliphant
Indies
Baya