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Show SMOKING AND WAR ALLIED Interesting to Note The Innovations Which Have Been Brought About by Bloodshed. It Is Interesting to note in reference refer-ence to Sir Ian Hamilton's appeal for cigarettes "for my brave fellows in Gallipoll," that the last war in which Britain was engaged in that part of Europe resulted in a new fashion in smoking. Before the Crimean war smoking smok-ing was regarded as a rather surreptitious surrepti-tious hahit to be indulged in in out-of-the-way places, and it is recorded record-ed that both Gladstone and Palmerston were strongly against the tobacco habit, hab-it, and did not like to have people near them who had been smoking. There was much smoking of cigars in the trenches at Sebastopol. Soldiers returned from the war set the example not only of wearing long whiskers, but of smoking with much more freedom than in the past, and cigars appeared in the streets. In those days some of the old school smoked cigars in china holders elaborately painted, an exercise exer-cise calculated from its peculiar inconveniences incon-veniences to keep smoking within bounds. Dundee Advertiser. |