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The Social History of Smoking

George Latimer Apperson

Chapter 5:

Tobacco was still the symbol of good-fellowship. Winstanley, who was an enemy of what he called "this Heathenish Weed," and who thought the "folly" of smoking might never have spread so much if stringent "means of prevention" had been exercised, yet had to declare in 1660 that "Tobacco it self is by few taken now as medicinal, it is grown a good-fellow, and fallen from a Physician to a Complement. 'He's no good-fellow that's without ... burnt Pipes, Tobacco, and his Tinder-Box.'"

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The Social History of Smoking

George Latimer Apperson

Chapter 11:

In the same "Pocket-Book" one of the ideals of a wife by a bachelor is-"To approve of smoking all over the house"; while one of the ideals of a husband by a spinster is-"Not to smoke, or use a latch-key." Mr. Punch's prelections, of course, are not to be taken too seriously. They all necessarily have the exaggeration of caricature; but at the same time they are all significant, and for the social historian are invaluable.

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