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Show Cigarettes, The cigarette is a miserable apology for a manly pleasure. Nothing shall ever induce us to believe that a man who really likes tobacco for tobacco's Bake prefers cigarettes. And the proof of this is that the more precious the cigarette is the less pure, invariably, is the tobacco. We do not want to enter into the endless controversies as to what the "loading" really is, or into the other endless fight about "cigarette smoker's throat." But if any one with Borne faculty of taste and smell will enter (the only way of judging) judg-ing) a room where some few whiffs of any fashionable brand of cigarette have been smoked, himself fasting from tobacco, to-bacco, he will perceive at once that thp flavor and odor are of tobacco plu something. Never mind what the something some-thing is; it is there. It is not the smell or the taste of tbe very best Turkish tobacco to-bacco (such as makers would have us believe is used) smoked in a clean pipe by itself. It is not the smell of any other kind of tobacco mingled with it The perfume and flavor of, say, the beat golden gold-en leaf smoked in a pipe, or the best Havana cigars, or the best tobacco, and cigars unadulterated of any other kind and country, are different enough, but they differ like the flavor of different wines all distinct, but all vinous. Tho flavor and odor of the cigarette, at least the popular manufactured Turkish or Egyptian cigarette (wo know, of course, i that vast quantities of ordinary Ameri-I Ameri-I can tobacco are smoked as cigarettes). ' are, in great part, not those of tobacco ! at all, but of something quite distinct : from, and added to, tobacco; and we . believe that all honest persona gifted i with discrimination will add that it l a deleterious something a something i provocative of "head"' and "throat" and j stimulative of a great desire 'o drink Saturday Review. |
