A Public Pipe.

Woodville Examiner, Volume 3, Issue 281, 3 September 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

A Public Pipe.

Intent upon doing smokers a good turn, a learned professor proposed to abolish the tobacconist by supplying every householder with tobacco smoke free of nicotine and all injurious elements. The tobacco is to be burned in retorts, the smoke produced passing into a large, bell-shaped receptacle, to be cooled, purified, and perfumed; and then conducted into the houses by pipes connected with meters, to register the amount consumed. Smaller pipes, carrying the' smoke into the various rooms, are furnished with amber-tipped flexible tubes, and all the smoker has to do is to turn a small screw and let the smoke glide into his mouth. For those who smoke abroad as well as at home the professor has devised an india-rubber bag, fitting to the chest, vastly improving the wearer’s appearance when inflated with tobacco-smoke, to be inhaled through a tube ending in an amber mouth-piece, which, when not in ‘use, will lie conveniently in the waistcoat pocket.