DO NOT SMOKE
Our latter-day statesmen are mostly addicted, more or less, to tobacco, like Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Churchill, Lord Birkenhead, Mr. Lloyd George, and others. Lord Balfour did not smoke in his later years, nor, I think, in his earlier- (says a writer in the London "Sunday Times"). Some people may hold that this abstinence had something to do with his length of days and prolonged physical and mental activity. Mr. Gladstone was also a non-smoker, and had only once, it was said, visited the House of Commons smokingroom.
Disraeli was an occasional smoker, and came back from his Eastern travels with a stock of jewelled and decorated Turkish pipes, but the habit did not suit him, and ho gave it up, though he could return to it for political reasons. During the Berlin Congress he and Bismarck had a tete-a-tete dinner and a long and intimate conversation. After the meal the Chancellor smoked, and the Primo Minister followed his example. By so doing, Disraeli told Queen Victoria, he . believed he had given the last blow to his shattered constitution. But, he added, "I felt it absolutely necessary. In such circumstances, the man who does not smoke has the appearance of spying upon the other."
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 69, 18 September 1930, Page 24
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206DO NOT SMOKE Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 69, 18 September 1930, Page 24
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