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  • A man sits at a table with drink, pipe and tobacco; another looks on and grimaces. Etching by D. Deuchar after A. van Ostade (?).
  • An experimental dissertation on the chemical and medical properties of the nicotiana tabacum of Linnaeus, commonly known by the name of tobacco / By Edward Brailsford.
  • Two footballers tackling before a crowd of people holding yellow flowers: tobacco free sport campaign in Morocco. Colour lithograph by Moroccan Ministry of Health, ca. 2002.
  • 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.
  • A man sitting indoors with tobacco pipe, jar and beer jug, behind a woman watches two card players. Engraving by Merot, junior, after A. van Ostade.
  • Above, an insect, three gastropod molluscs, a guinea hen and a prickly ophidian; below, an ostracean, a tobacco plant, two insects, two orioles, and an ornithoryncus. Engraving by Heath.
  • 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.
  • An old smuggler (Mr Moffit) is shot dead by a naval inspector with a pistol, who finds rolls of tobacco in the dead man's pockets; other people attend the scene. Engraving by W. Greatbach, 1833, after F. Pickering.
  • 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.
  • Via recta ad vitam longam. Or, a treatise wherein the right way and best manner of living for attaining to a long and healthfull life, is clearly demonstrated ... Whereunto is annexed ... a treatise of the famous baths of Bathe. With a censure of the medicinall faculties of the water of St. Vincents-Rocks neer ... Bristoll. As also an accurate treatise concerning tobacco. All ... amplified / [Tobias Venner].
  • 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.
  • Nepal; Kathmandu Valley, 1986. The Kathmandu Valley is situated in Nepal's Hill Region ('Pahar' in Nepali - altitutides 1000-4000 metres), and is the country's most fertile and urbanised area as well as being its political and cultural centre. The hills, sculpted into a vast complex of terraces, are extensively cultivated. Hill farmers produced food staples, mostly rice and corn, although this is still a food-deficit area. Other crops include wheat, millet, barley, sugarcane, tobacco, potatoes and oilseed. The climate is mild with summer temperatures reaching 30 degrees C and winter temperatures about 10 degrees C. The most common trees are oak, alder, jacaranda and rhododendron.
  • 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.
  • Player's Navy Cut cigarettes : "medium" / John Player & Sons.
  • Player's Navy Cut cigarettes : "medium" / John Player & Sons.
  • Air raid wardens and civilian volunteer despatch-rider / W.D. & H.O. Wills.
  • Rubber clothing / W.D. & H.O. Wills.
  • The civilian duty respirator / W.D. & H.O. Wills.
  • The civilian respirator : how to adjust it / W.D. & H.O. Wills.
  • Volunteer mobile corps (owner drivers) / W.D. & H.O. Wills.
  • The civilian respirator : how to remove it / W.D. & H.O. Wills.
  • The civilian respirator : how to remove it / W.D. & H.O. Wills.
  • The civilian duty respirator / W.D. & H.O. Wills.
  • The civilian respirator : how to adjust it / W.D. & H.O. Wills.
  • Volunteer mobile corps (owner drivers) / W.D. & H.O. Wills.
  • A heavy anti-gas suit / W.D. & H.O. Wills.
  • The service respirator / W.D. & H.O. Wills.
  • A heavy anti-gas suit / W.D. & H.O. Wills.