Show whipped tot not smoking in england at the time ot the great plague it was repented that no one living in a tobacconist s house fell sick of the disease this caused a great de mand or tobacco hearne says in his diary I 1 remember that I 1 heard formerly tom rogers who was yeoman beadle say that when he was a school boy at eton that year when the plague raged all the boys of that school were obliged to smoke every morning and that he was never whipped so much in his life as he w as one morning for not |