SOME HISTORY OF SMOKING. 1655: Hangman of Gloucestershire complains of unemployment. “Men are too busy growing tobacco to be poaching or stealing sheep.” 1664: Charles II prohibits dons of Cambridge from smoking while they preach. 1714: Addison writes that “lighting pipes at the same candle looked upon as an overture to friendship.” 1852: French pipe-maker manufactures pipes from bruyere root. 191 S: Y.M.C.A. lifts ban on smoking and orders tobacco for soldiers. 1932: Pipe-smoking Increases In popularity among men. Edgeworth tobacco reaches highest sales. Ask your tobacconist for a 2/- ton of Edgeworth “Ready-Rubbed” or “Plug Slice.” It’s the "Prince of Pipe Tobaccos.”—-Advt.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 267, 6 August 1932, Page 12
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103Page 12 Advertisements Column 3 Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 267, 6 August 1932, Page 12
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