Some tobacconists mix molasses with the salt sauce, and ascribe to this addition the violet colour of the macouba snuff of Martinique; and others add a solution of extract of liquorice.
As those primitive balloons were, in the opinion of the vulgar, filled with smoke, the tobacconistsconsidered them as within their province, and thus it became a favourite device with this class of shops.
From whence they obtained the information it is difficult to say, but it was a well-established fact with the old tobacconists that he could enjoy his pipe.
The "Black Boy," indeed, continued in use by tobacconists until the nineteenth century was well advanced.
On the occasion of the accession of James I, 1603, when London was given up to rejoicing and revelry, we are told that "tobacconists [i.
Cowper then goes on to attack tobacco in lines which show how unpopular smoking at that date was with ladies, and which have since often been quoted by anti-tobacconists with grateful appreciation: Pernicious weed!
Before the end of the seventeenth century, however, the signs were ceasing to have any necessary association with the trade carried on under them, and tobacconists are found with shop-signs which had no reference in any way to tobacco.
At Edinburgh in the eighteenth century there were tobacconists who used two pipes crossed, a roll of tobacco and two leaves over two crossed pipes, and a roll of tobacco and three leaves.
The anti-tobacconists among those present, few of whom were men, must have suffered by the practice.
The tobacconists and street-hawkers of cigars were deprived of their livelihood, and the misery and consequent ill-will created amongst the poor of Rome by keeping up the prohibition would have been serious.
The Italians, however, are not much of pipe-smokers, and the tobacconists are in despair at the total absence of customers.
In times of stress it might perhaps be advisable to send the tobacconists out to fight, and keep the soldiers to mind as many of their shops as could be managed, shutting up the rest.
The number of tobacconists in Holland must be very great, and the trade is probably strong enough to resist effectually the impost on the weed which was recently threatened by a daring Minister, if ever it is attempted.
