The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-06
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first pipe.
Though well known TO Europeans Wis
itfng America tobacco was not brought
into Europe until late In the sixteenth
century. A Spanish doctor, Herman
deg. is said 10 have brought the ilfst
tobacco into Europe. Jean Nicot-Who
has left his name behind in nicotine
sent some tobacco in 1859 to the grand
n,.iellr Of Franco. He described it as
"a herb Of peculiar pleasant taste good
incidentally in feyers and other dis-
eases 1T was, in fact. as medicine
that tobacco was introduced into Eu-
rope. and for many years IL remained
in pharmacopeia. For long Tune Inc
fragrant weed had no settled name. IL
was called by a score of different titles
the most common being nicotina. Uftl-
mately the world returned to tobacco.
the name by which Hernandez called u
on introducing ii in Europe, and, with
trifing variations. this is the name by
which it Is universally known
Tradition asserts that Sir waiter
Raleigh was the first to smoke tobacco
in ENGLAND. This honor is also claimed
for several other gentlemen, but It Is
a point impossible to be settled. cap
tains Price and Koet were, however, the
first to smoke tobacco publicly in Lon
don. They used "segars, or twisted
leaves. and many people assem- pied 70
see them smoke or drink tobacco, as IL
was called at that time. Pipes We're
rot invented in those days Al ilfst
they were made of silver, and the poor
er classes, unable to buy these, USED
walnut shell for the bowl of the PIPE.
and straw to suck up the smoke Iils
primitive pipe was passed from man 10
man round the table in taverns, where
smoking was chiefly INDUCED In. Sinok-
ing leaped into popular favor, ana the
habit was practiced everywhere,
churches not excepted.
nssnn
nicating all who used tobacco in
churches. and Elizabeth thought proper
TO add to this penalty Of eScommunl-
cation against those who hlled tneir
nostrils with snuff during divine SER
vice, and ordered the beadles to contis-
cate their snuff boxes Later another
pope communicated all who took
snuff or tobacco in ST. Peters at
Rome. Later the American Puritans
followed the example of the European
Catholics and forbade smoking IN
church. as the service was greatly dis
turbed by the clinking of tints ana
steel To light the pipes, and the CLOUDS
of smoke in church.
Hence a law was made enactlng that
amy person or persons that shait ~
found smoking of tobacco on the Lora
day going 10 or from the meetings.
within two miles Of The meeting house,
shall pay II pence for every sucn de-
fault Under this law five men were
fined for smoking of tobacco at the eHd
Of Yarmouth, Mass, meeting house on
the Lords day" Like everything else.
tobacco by its popularity. awakened
opposition The anti-tobacconists were
headed by James L., who characterized
the custom as loathsome TO the eye,
harmful TO the brain, dangerous TO the
| lungs and in the black fume thereon
nearest resembling the horrible St5g1an
smoke of the nit that is bnttomless.
T, al NJ
/ called forth similar illusions TO the
British Solompn's ''counterblaste, ana
for many years the tobacconists-as the
smokers, not the sellers. of tobacco We're
then calIed-came in for severe cflu-
cism,
All classes INDUCED in tobacco, nor
We're the ladies squeamish in partaklng
| of the fragrant weed. In those DAYS
| smoking was a more expensive hablt
| than II Is to-day. Tobacco cost 10 cents
| an ounce, equal, according TO present
| values, to $3.50. 1t was sold for ITS
| weight in silver, and our ancestors were
/ accustomed TO reserve their heaviest
/ shilings for buying tobacco.
Much as the Engllshman likes ms
/ glass of beer. he prizes his pipe much
| more. and one can easily imagine the
| storm which would arise if the house or
| commons took steps to stop smoking.
| Yet in 1921. Sir William stroud moved
in the house of commons that he would
! have tobacco hanished wholly out OF
/ the realm and not brought in nor used
/ among us" Sir Guy palmes said that
! ii tobacco be not hanished it viii over
! throw 100000 men in England, for now
/ ii was so common he had seen men take
/ ii at the pillow.
James l. was not alone in his attempt
/ to uproot the habit of smoking. Pa
/ gans. Mohammedan and Christian mon
arehs combined 10 crush it out. Peter
+ tl..af af ta14
and 50 did the shah Of Persia. ANU
rath VII. Of Turkey ordered that all
| smokers should have their noses slit
| and a tobacco pipe thrust through
they were then To be paraded through
the streets as a warming. For smoking
] the leaves Of plant. death was the
penalty. for shutting il up the nostrils
the nose was cut off. But neither the
| DEGREES of princes nor the thunder al
| pnpes could check the habit. The vii
of fools and the wisdom Of scholars was
| alike wasted in frntless endeaNofs Il
| Danish tobacco. Such efforts seem II
| diculous nowadays. Imagine II yot
can. a Turk without his cigarette, Z
| German without his pipe, aud English
| man without his bulldog pipe.
Among the purilans tobacco was a.
| first abhorred. but il gradually gainet
ground Quakers smoked, but friends
were requested TO partake of tobacco
privately and in their own houses, II
order not Ia encourage smoking am
make the use thereof excessive. In thu
American eaIoaips tobacco took tn,
form If coin For harharing a Quake
or bringing one from England, fine .
5,o0n pounds Of tobacco was inflicted.
cargo of young women was hrough
from ENGLAND for wives for the settlers
and these were disposed of at IL
pounds Of tobacco a head, The use q
tobacco to-day is universal. The Amer
leans consume nine pounds a head
while the Englishm&n only smokes |
pounds head annually. To the habi
of smoking is attributed by some TIL
irritable i'll health and nervousness o
to-day But The worry and troubles .
modern life demanded a sedative. an,
tobacco supplies that demand. Wha
the world would be without tobacco no
body can imagine. Let anti-tobaceon