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  • Tobacco: chemicals contained in its smoke and their effects on human health, especially the heart. Colour lithograph, 197- (?).
  • Tobacco: an Irishman, a Scot and an English sailor smoke, take snuff and chew respectively. Coloured aquatint by Hunt, c. 1833, after W. Summers after C. J. Grant.
  • Tobacco: an Irishman, a Scot and an English sailor smoke, take snuff and chew respectively. Coloured aquatint by Hunt, c. 1833, after W. Summers after C. J. Grant.
  • A man holding a tobacco pipe and blowing a smoke ring. Mezzotint by A. Blooteling (Bloteling) after P. Staverenus.
  • A man looking out of a window, holding a pipe, exhaling tobacco smoke. Etching by D. Deuchar after A. van Ostade (?).
  • A man blowing out clouds of smoke from a long pipe, with a tobacco plant to his right. Halftone, c. 1890, after a woodcut, c. 1616.
  • Two monkeys in feathered caps smoking tobacco. Engraving after D. Teniers.
  • An African chief smoking a very elaborately carved tobacco-pipe. Process print.
  • A Scotsman and a Native American man smoking pipes by barrels of tobacco. Coloured engraving.
  • Smoking tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.): flowering and fruiting stem. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 1772.
  • A man smoking before his family: World No-Tobacco Day in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2001.
  • A man sits at a table smoking as Cupid enters the room with three tobacco pipes. Engraving, c. 1618.
  • A man sits at a table smoking as Cupid enters the room with three tobacco pipes. Engraving, c. 1618.
  • A married couple, Mr and Mrs Potts, arguing about Mr Potts's habit of tobacco smoking. Lithograph by T.H. Jones.
  • A no smoking sign: World No Tobacco Day in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, 2005.
  • A group of five heads; three men smoking tobacco and two women taking snuff. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech, c. 1823, after L. Boilly.
  • A group of five heads; three men smoking tobacco and two women taking snuff. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech, c. 1823, after L. Boilly.
  • Lobelia tupa L Campanulaceae Tabaco del Diablo [Devil's tobacco]. Distribution: Central Chile. Dried leaves are smoked as a hallucinogen by the Mapuchu Indians of Chile. It was also used as a respiratory stimulant. The genus was named after Matthias de L’Obel or Lobel, (1538–1616), Flemish botanist and physician to James I of England, author of the great herbal Plantarum seu Stirpium Historia (1576). Lobeline, a chemical from the plant has nicotine like actions and for a while lobeline was used to help people withdraw from smoking, but was found to be ineffective. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Englishmen smoking in a city street, thereby causing a nuisance to women. Etching.
  • A smoker with huge head exhales cigar smoke which forms the words "try one". Coloured lithograph, c. 1879, after T. Worth.
  • A smoker with huge head exhales cigar smoke which forms the words "try one". Coloured lithograph, c. 1879, after T. Worth.
  • A smoker with huge head exhales cigar smoke which forms the words "try one". Coloured lithograph, c. 1879, after T. Worth.
  • A smoker with huge head exhales cigar smoke which forms the words "try one". Coloured lithograph, c. 1879, after T. Worth.
  • An Indian man smoking a nariel, or cocoa nut hooka. Coloured stipple and line etching, c. 1804, after F. Solvyns.
  • Six Indian men smoking a variety of pipes and hookas. Coloured aquatint with etching by A. Biasioli, c. 1815.
  • A group of boys are smoking: they have tied the gate to prevent the man with a strap from chasing them. Etching by H.C. Shenton after W. Kidd.
  • A man with an extra large head exhales smoke from an enormous cigar. Coloured lithograph, c. 1880, after T. Worth.
  • Smoking: a man smoking in the countryside, his head represented as a cigarette which turns into a smoking chimney; representing the polluting effects of smoking. Colour lithograph after M. Glaser, 1973.
  • A sailor sitting on a barrel and smoking. Reproduction of a woodcut, early 19th century.
  • A man sits at a table preparing to smoke his pipe. Etching by D. Deuchar (?) after A. van Ostade.