The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-19
LAPS HAVE SOLVED SECRET OF SMOKING Savant Says WeSterners Should
 Learn Over Again HOW 10 AVOID NICOTINE Elaborate Water Pipes of Oriental Countries Permit a Delightful
 and Comparatively Harmless
 Smoke--Work of Nlcot.
HOW 10 AVOID NICOTINE
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post
 Learn to smoke.
 This Is the advice of pr. valentn Nal passe, lecturer in the Paris College of Medicine and physician to the French embassy in Persia. Yet. although his ad- vice may shock them. Dr. Nalpasse is one of the strongest supporters of the anti-tobacconists. He wants Americans and Europeans to learn to smoke be-
 cause he declares that the nations of the west have not yet learned.
 He urges Americans to sit at the feet of the Orientals and learn all over again
 how to smoke--to learn again without
 the bangs and gripings of the first time;
 to learn to smoke healthfully' hygien-
 ically. For he believes that tobacco can
 be smoked without harm or injury to the
 smoker--although he does not commit
 himself as to cigarettes.
 The west, according to the learned doc
 tor, smokes ignorantly, and the greatest
 smokers, the real slaves to the weed,
 are the ones who know least about smok-
 ing. Putting away at the choicest tobact
 cos, the costliest cigars, the most deli
 cate cigarettes, they do not know how to
 smoke.
 Through ignorance of smoking, accord
 ing to Nalpasse, they not only miss the real enjoyment of the smoke, but they injure themselves. So Americans ana Europeans must learn all over again. They must abandon entirely their pres ent smoking habits, and. sitting at the feet of the Indian, the Persian, the Chin aman, or the Jap, they must learn to use instead of abuse tobacco. And this learned man tells us that the Jap Is the best and the most scientific smoker in the world. Instead or putting
 up a No Smoking" sign he would re- form the world and make nicotine a
 blessing instead of curse by having the
 other nations take lessons in smoking from the Japs.
 In confirmation and re-enforcement or
 his counsel, Dr. Nalpasse offers the re- suits of his varied experiences In the
 Asiatic countries, his observations there, and his convincing conclusions. Pipes and poison are intimately assonated m this wise mans mind. The best pipe TOT insuring the smallest possible inhalation
 of nicotine, he thinks, has long tuoe and a. bowl like the chibook, which was in honor formerly among the Turks This chibook, unhappily out of fashion today. is composed of several successive tubes swelling out of large dimensions at the end and was of unquesuonapie value in arresting the passage or the nicotine ere 1t reached the lips of the smoker.
 NarghlIeh Supreme. But of all the weapons that compro- mise the arsenal of the well-equipped modern smoker, none can rival the all too classic, the gracefully elegant narg- hileh. In this curious and elaborate ap- paratus, supremely hygienic, tobacco IS grilled in little metal furnace, the vanor ,s conducted through a tube across a basin filled with ordinary water, or, better, rose water, and arrives at the lips of the smoker by a second tube. 1 Nothing" cries Theophilus Gautier, the French writer, lis more favorable to poetic reveries than to inhale in little drafts upon the pillows of a divan that