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Show Whipped for Not Smoking. In England at the time of the great plague it was reported that no one living liv-ing in a tobacconist's house fell sick of the disease. This caused a great demand de-mand for tobacco. Hearne says in his diary: "I remember that I heard formerly for-merly Tom Rogers, who was yeoman beadle, say that when he was a schoolboy 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 was one morning for not smokine. |