Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-10-30
THE AMERICAN SMOKER. A."

THE AMERICAN SMOKER"
Whether great occasions produce great men,
or great men produce great occasions, is prob
lem yet in dispute. But it is certain that great
demands produce great supplies and that neces-
sity is the mother of invention These pro-
found and original reflections were suggested by
singular phenomenon which attracted our at
.tention, few days ago, on Broadway. A per-
son (perhaps mdII) was moving along behind
a cigar which projected unusually from his face.
A close inspection revealed to our wondering
eyes one of the most extraordinary wonders OF
this wondrous age of wonderful wonders. 1t
was "The American Smoker"
We do not like to advertise gratuitously, nor
write puffs without pay. Some things we could
not be hired to puff, and one of these is cigar.
But this is depression.
We do not mean by "Amercan Smoker" an
American who smokes nor a smoker who chews
and snuffs also; nor remedy for smoking
chimney or stovepipe; nor machine that does
ones tobacco-smoking, and thereby saves him
the trouble and the danger. But we do mean
an invention (patented probably which is cal
culated to be of incalculable value in enabling
an American. whether native or foreigner, to
puff the weed and not burn his mouth As to
the origin of the term: it is called Smoker s.
probably, not because the smoker smokes it. or
1t smokes the smoker but because the smoker
who desires to smoke tobacco, inhales the fun
igatng smudge through it. And it is denomi-
mated american" doubtless, because the Wes-
tern Hemisphere has the honor of containing
the person of the illustrious genius, the inven-
tor.
This never-enough-t to- be admired invention
consists of tube, which may be constructed of
any material to suit the fancy or purse of the
purchaser-say iron, brass, copper, silver, gold,
ivory, bone, wood. leather, gutta-percha-two
or three inches in length 1.-THE longer the better
alMays,l INTO the outer end of which is to be
adjusted the cigar in the centre is a hollow
bulb or knob into which wet sponge is placed.
This is TO be highly medicated and exquisitely
aromatized with castor, musk, ciyet, or any 9TH
er delectable and potent fragrancy 1--WE suggest
assafetida,) so that all the smoker derives from
the tobacco, in passing through "rhe American
Smoker shall be modified, Modified. refined.
subllmated, concentrated, eXpatiated, and rem
dered astonishingly superexernoxifcationab
before it reaches the mouth, throat lungs. blood.
visccra, and brains (9) of the person who is at
tached to the other end of the invention. The
great desideratum thus prepared and operated.
enables the smoker to smoke his cigar and his
vitality all away without scorching his lips or
oyerheating his nose.
As an ornament to the human countenance
nothing can be like unto it. Like extensive
hoops, it is both an inconvenience to others and
protection to ones self in a dense crowd
But its advantages in sanitary point of view
are immensely peculiar. 1t has long been
known to medical men that foul sores, malip
nant tuberces, and even cancers of the lips and
tongue, very frequently result from smoking
cigars and pipes in the ordinary manner "The
American Smoker" by transferring all the mis-
chief to the internal and out-of-sight places.
will prove an infalible preventive, antidote. and
curative for all such internal excrescences.
The germ of this mighty idea, so skilfully
elaborated in "The American Smoker" is found
far back in the annals of science and the arts
Long time ago physicians instructed their pa
tients to take elirir rHriol through glass tube,
lest the corrosive acid should decompose the
teeth. More recently, nice young men, for. the
purpose of prolonging the sensational Utilization
OF liquor and sugar, have applied the same
great conservative and beautifully philosophical
principle to the elegant accomplishment of suck
ing their juleps through straw.
The enterprising proprietor of "The Ameri-
can Smoker" is already doing thriving busi-
ness Flaming advertisements in many of the
newspapers are evidences that his merits are
announced if not appreciated. store has
been opened on Broadway, where "rights" and
smokers are for sale in lots to suit purchasers.
All over the Streets on the steamboats, and fer
ryboats, at all the steamboat landings and rail-
road depots, where mo smoking" is allowed in
large capitals, and in every place where men,
women, and children are huddled together old
men, young men, boys, and even "big babies"
are found carrying "The American Smoker" be-
tween their teeth as though they were ecstatic
i'll having discovered a new pleasure.
There is nothing like cleanliness 1t is next
to godliness. All persons should be decent
at lest externally. A man may, indeed ia pig
must not, because we want to eat the pig,) be-
foul his blood he may deprave all of his secre-
tions with the poison of tobacco; he may so
bestench his whole system inwardly, that his
very breath is contagion and his perspiraton
infectious--so that his wife will sicken and his
child die from contact with his person; he may
fill his internal organs with cancerous or tuber-
cular deposits; he may spread canker sores all
along his mucous surfaces !; and no matter, pro-
vided he does not disfgure himself outwardly
When he dies, as soon he will, his corpse will
present fair surface, and like bacon picked in
the antiseptics of rock-salt and wood smoke, it
will keep all the better Tor having been so thor
oughly tobacco-smoked through the instrument
tality of "The American Smoker" ."-LDe Illus
trated.