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The Daily Dispatch: July 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], History of smoking. (search)
ry by it." Smoking soon spread through all ranks and became universal. The spectators at the theatres, in Shakespeare's time, were permitted to sit on the stage during the performance and puff away vigorously at their pipes and tobacco. Smoking was also permitted in all other parts of the house. The practice reached its climax about 1610. A common mode of smoking was to swallow the smoke partially, and afterwards blow it out through the nostrils. This was called tobacco drinking. In 1614 there was said to be upwards of seven thousand tobacco selling houses in London.--The Virginia tobacco was usually imported in the leaf, tied up in small loose bundles; the Spanish tobacco mostly in balls about the size of a man's head, coarsely spun into a kind of thick twine. The medical profession of that period ascribed to tobacco extraordinary medicinal effects. The "humors" of the body could only be "purged" by tobacco. It was during this universal prevalence of the practice that