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Carlyle as a persistent preacher of the gospel of silence with his pipe—Frederick the Great’s Tobacco Parliament—Carlyle’s early experience in smoking and his first pinch of snuff—Charles Lamb and his associates over the pipe—Bismarck’s Bund story—Divergent French views on the use of tobacco—Robert Hall, Spurgeon, Capt. Marryat, Fairholt, Inglis, Thackeray, and Bulwer Lytton, all express opinions favourable to tobacco smoking.

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