Show thackeray and tobacco thackeray rarely wrote without cigar between his teeth in his fitz boodle papers he jocularly suggests that all the hullabaloo against smoking has been raised by women who are jealous of it as a rival and it is a rival to them he admits and their con germany has been puffin away for threescore years france smokes to a man do you think you could keep the enemy out of england ask the clubhouses club houses I 1 for my part do no despair to see a bishop lolling out of the athenaeum with a cheroot in hia mouth or at any rate a pipe in his shovel hat exchange |