Mohave County miner., 1891-01-24
SMOKING N AvsTall.
asowth Of the cisarstts Habit Pipes and
S1uH- -Taklux.

Snum-TaktuIs
| According TO statistics just issued.
says Vienna correspondent OF thu
London Telegraph. tho number oil
cigars smoked In Austria during tho
last year was 1, Oe5, e00, 600 showing d
reduction OF ~, 600. 600 on the ptesibHA
years returns. On the other hand,
the Reggie soia ory, ory nno 600 of cigarettes,
which Is l74. 600, 900 more than aur...
the year before. The quantity Of 10.
baeeo sold BY the government has
neither ipereasea iibf diminished.
thoagh be .consNmpsioh ~ kUnh IA
steadily declining. Cigarette smokers
In Austria r.efer the ready-made article,
whereas IN France and Spain smoker
make their own cigarettes. The
Austrian Reggie cigarette is scarcely OF
a quality 70 satisfy the average foreign
palate Tbs tobaeea hiny BIZ sound
and the paper FREQ from injurious Id.
gradients; bit the whole lacks fra
granee and flavor At Il time when !
was 4 smoker myself l Eotild feSer get
through Reggie cigarette.
IL j. surprising how the habit Of thi,
Kind of smoking has spread in this
country where but fifteen or twenty
years ago the pipe and cigar were in.
dulged 10 almost exclusively. An ia
crease OF "a per cent in the Reggie
sales tells Its own tale. You now see
boys OF 10 and IL at every street corner
whiting their paper cigar unrebuked,
taking 1t as q matter Of course that
their pocket money should be spent iD
tobacco. In former years II was not
usual for ladies to smoke Ia restaurant
aud places Of public resort. The
grandes danes OF society are not all
smokers. but many Of those who ars
think nothing Of lighting q cigarette
after dinner al any uf the fashIopable
eatiug-houses; Some OF them smoke
cigars. though they seldom venture 10
do SO i'd public.
Most young men Have abandoned
cigars altogether, and keep up Gigavl
ette smoking from early morniug till
bedtime. 1t would bc idle 10 DENY
that the abuse of cigarettes Is working
havoc among the Austrian youth.
Here. as elsewhere, II has disastrous
Dust Is one Of the great drawbacks OF
the Vienna atmosphere. aud when that
Is coupled with the smoke Of indinerl
ent tobacco and paper. the effect upon
the respiratory organs is necessarily
most Injurious. Then in Austria smok.
ing Is allowed everywhere, excepting
at church and the theaters. There are
railway carriages labeled for non-
smokers, but on recent journey I got
into one Of these and was not little
dismayed to find each side of the com.
partment provided with an ash-tray.
The Vienna cafes are renowned for the
delicious cafe-au-lait they give at early
breakfast, but 20 at whatever hour you
will from 6 Ia the morning and you will
find the air poisoned with foul cigarette
smoke, while the bread aud the milk
coffee" itself are slightly impregnated
with the flavor OF tobacco.
The old-fashioned yiennese. who can
no longer enjoy his pipe outside his
own house, has taken to the avir.
ginia." or rat-tailed cigar. with the
straw mouthpiece. single one OF
which is sufficient to ill the Albert hall
with vague Udor Of burned seaweed.
This atrocious cheroot is mere
apology for smoking. Not one In q
thousand tastes OF tobacco. yet the
Virginia" seems TO have the fatal
fascination Of the cigarette. Ii IL
making the same rayages among the
lower classes as is the cigarette among
their betters. Almost every working
mao carries four or five "virginias" in
his breast pocket when he goes to his
work 10 the morning, and in many
cases they do not last him the day
through. His clothes are saturated
with the abominable smell Of "Vir-
giuia" smoke. 1t makes him offensive
even at distance. and renders the
closed premises which he frequents
simply intolerable. Virginia" smok-
ing is decidedly greater nuisance
han sauf-taking.
IT Is only in the Tyrol and Galicia
hat the habit OF taking snuff still
Exists. though the quality OF the
Austrian Regie snuff Is excellent. II II
exported far and wide. and is high ia
'avor with amateurs Of all nations. IL
inS RcSh pithltttH On EODu authority
hat the difficulty of obtaining good
.obacco TO smoke will revive the Gus
.om Of taking snuff. In Austria. how
,ver. it Is not the case. Even among
he clergy it Is not as prevalent as in
'ther Catholic countries; here the
priests smoke. In place where il
nay bo said that everybody pulls the
Indian weed" it is sometimes draw
back to be non-smoker. When you
pay call, on business or otherwise,
fou are at once Offered a cigarette,
which. even if YOU only take couple
II whiffs, you are expected to light.
Il you do not do so in many cases il
hrows chill on the conversation to
,ome.
Iu the east it Is considered hardly
rood manners to refuse cigarette.
ust as in America 1t is unfriendly to
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