... provincial laws, and of royal, parliamentary and papal power, tobacco has kept on itsway, till it has encircled the earth, and now holds in slavery a larger number of human minds than any otherherb.Effects ... frightful ravages, than where all classes of persons are addicted to the free use of this article. In Havana, in 1833, containing a stationary population of about one hundred andtwenty thousand, cholera ... 'All the inconvenience'he experienced, 'was a few sleepless nights, and an incessant hankering after the accustomed fascinatinginfluence of the cigar and cud.' An Essay on the...