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  • Tobacco : Its history, varieties, culture, manufacture and commerce, with an account of its various modes of use, from its first discovery until now / [E R Billings].
  • A tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum), its flowers and seeds, bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
  • Panacea; or the universal medicine, being a discovery of the wonderfull vertues of tobacco taken in a pipe, with its operation and use both in physick and chyrurgery / By Dr. Everard, etc.
  • Panacea; or the universal medicine, being a discovery of the wonderfull vertues of tobacco taken in a pipe, with its operation and use both in physick and chyrurgery / By Dr. Everard, etc.
  • To thine own self be true : I promise by the help of GOD, for my own sake, and as an example to others, to abstain from the use of Tobacco in every form, until I am at least 21 years of age... / The Primitive Methodist Anti-Cigarette League.
  • Eight illustrations of the kiln used in baking clay tobacco pipes. Engraving by Mutlow, c. 1812, after J. Farey.
  • The first DNA fingerprint. The first three lanes contain DNA from a woman, her mother and her father respectively. Lanes 4 - 11 contain DNA from assorted other species including mouse, baboon, lemur, cow, grey seal and tobacco (last lane). The DNA probe used in this experiment detected tandomly repeated short stretches of DNA called minisatellites whose length varies between individuals.
  • 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.
  • Tussilago farfara L. Asteraceae. Coltsfoot. Distribution: Europe, N. Africa, W & N Asia . Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘Tussilago. Coltsfoot. ... they are admirable good for coughs and consumptions of the lungs, shortness of breath etc. It is often used and with great success taken in a tobacco pipe, being cut and mixed with a little oil of Annis seeds.’ It is hepatotoxic genotoxic and carcinogenic due to the pyrrolizidine alkaloids that it contains. It should not be taken internally (Medicines Control Agency, 2002). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Two men face one another, one looks bemused and the other smokes a pipe upside down. Wood-engraving, mid-19th century.
  • An Indian seated outside his house smoking a hooka. Chromolithograph.
  • A young Moorish man smoking a long-stemmed pipe. Coloured etching by Préval, mid-19th century, after F.C. Compte-Calix, 184-.
  • A woman smoking a cigarette, showing the route through which the smoke passes to the heart and lungs, as a warning against smoking. Colour lithograph, ca. 1940.
  • Englishmen smoking in a city street, thereby causing a nuisance to women. Etching.
  • A woman smoking a cigarette, showing the route through which the smoke passes to the heart and lungs, as a warning against smoking. Colour lithograph, ca. 1940.
  • A young gentleman taking snuff. Mezzotint by H. Dawe, c. 1824, after M. W. Sharp.
  • Six Indian men smoking a variety of pipes and hookas. Coloured aquatint with etching by A. Biasioli, c. 1815.
  • A woman holding a tobacco pipe and a drinking glass. Mezzotint by B. Lens.
  • Three young men smoke and read in their room. Engraving, mid 19th century.
  • A pretty girl and an old woman both taking snuff. Coloured stipple engraving after L. Boilly, ca. 1827.
  • A man looking out of a window, holding a pipe, exhaling tobacco smoke. Etching by D. Deuchar after A. van Ostade (?).
  • A burning cigarette, of which the ash at the burning end turns into people carrying the coffin of a smoker. Colour lithograph after V. Volkov and A. Marchenko, 1988.
  • The anatomy of melancholy : what it is. With all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, and severall cures of it - in three maine partitions, with their severall sections, members, and subsections / philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened and cut up by Democritus Junior [i.e. Robert Burton] - with a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse.
  • Two Arab men standing outdoors to converse and smoke. Coloured lithograph by C. Bour, c. 1870, after E. Prisse.
  • A sailor sitting on a barrel and smoking. Reproduction of a woodcut, early 19th century.
  • A Chinese man stands in his garden smoking a long-stemmed pipe. Coloured aquatint by T. & W. Daniell, c. 1810.
  • An Indian man smoking a nariel, or cocoa nut hooka. Coloured stipple and line etching, c. 1804, after F. Solvyns.
  • A fat man sits at his fireside taking snuff with a smoking pipe and drink by his side. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, c. 1822, after J. Gillray.
  • A Scotsman and a Native American man smoking pipes by barrels of tobacco. Coloured engraving.
  • Egypt: a street with a man smoking and riding a camel. Chromolithograph after C. F. H. Werner, 1873.