Produced by David Newman, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net * * * * * +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | A number of obvious typographical errors have been corrected | | in this text. For a complete list, please see the bottom of | | this document. | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF SMOKING _BY THE SAME AUTHOR_ BYGONE LONDON LIFE THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF SMOKING BY G.L. APPERSON, I.S.O. LONDON MARTIN SECKER NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET ADELPHI _First published 1914_ PRINTED AT THE BALLANTYNE PRESS LONDON TO J.H.M. AND R.W.B. GOOD FRIENDS AND GOOD SMOKERS BOTH PREFACE This is the first attempt to write the history of smoking in this country from the social point of view. There have been many books written about tobacco--F.W. Fairholt's "History of Tobacco," 1859, and the "Tobacco" (1857) of Andrew Steinmetz, are still valuable authorities--but hitherto no one has told the story of the fluctuations of fashion in respect of the practice of smoking. Much that is fully and well treated in such a work as Fairholt's "History" is ignored in the following pages. I have tried to confine myself strictly to the changes in the attitude of society towards smoking, and to such historical and social sidelights as serve to illuminate that theme.