WHO INTRODUCED CIGARETTE?.
~ i It has "been generally -understood that ! the habit of smoking cigarettes was introduced into England by the *ob ; di**rs who returned homo at the close of" the Crimean War, after having been I in close association with the Turkish j soldiers. The use o£ the cigarette in
England, however, was due to the late King Edward VII., who, when Prince of Wales, voyaged to India on the Serapis in 1878. At Alexandria, where a call was made, the Prince, an invevterate cigar smoker, became acquainted with the cigarette which he at. first regarded as a novelty. Many of his fellow passengers, seeing His Highness smoking these, till then, little known contrivances, commenced to do likewise, and soon a liking for them .was cultivated-
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17180, 25 October 1923, Page 6
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127WHO INTRODUCED CIGARETTE?. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17180, 25 October 1923, Page 6
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