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Two Greenwich Pensioners sitting in the garden of a tavern, near the Hospital, a woman behind listening to them, another Pensioner in the distance on the right. Mezzotint, 1791.

Two boys posing with cigarettes. Photographic postcard by A. Caggiano, 190-.

James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford. Colour lithograph by L. Ward (Spy), 1878.

A woman smoking a pipe and holding a drinking glass. Etching.

Two Malay men and a woman sit and recline on the floor smoking opium. Wood-engraving, late 19th century.

Five men gather round a table to play cards, drink and smoke in a dingy smoke den. Engraving by J. Goldar after D. Teniers, the younger.

Egypt: a street with a man smoking and riding a camel. Chromolithograph after C. F. H. Werner, 1873.

Customers drink and smoke in a spirit shop in South Africa. Wood engraving, c. 1877.

A man with an extra large head exhales smoke from an enormous cigar. Coloured lithograph, c. 1880, after T. Worth.

Men smoking, drinking and singing in a dingy smoke den. Engraving by J. Goldar after E. van Heemskerk.

A healthy eating guide : cholesterol / Tesco Stores Ltd.

Textiles: cultivation and spinning of cotton. Engraving.

Smoking and drinking / by James Parton.

Dying for a smoke.

Die Rauchhere : alten und jungen Gliedern des Raucherordens, sonderlich rauchenden Vätern, Lehrern und Geistlichen zur genaueren Betrachtung und Warnung vorgeführt : nebst einem Emancipationsvorschlage / von J. Strebel.

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A healthy eating guide : cholesterol / Tesco Stores Ltd.

Textiles: cultivation and spinning of cotton. Engraving.

Smoking and drinking / by James Parton.

Dying for a smoke.

Die Rauchhere : alten und jungen Gliedern des Raucherordens, sonderlich rauchenden Vätern, Lehrern und Geistlichen zur genaueren Betrachtung und Warnung vorgeführt : nebst einem Emancipationsvorschlage / von J. Strebel.