The room is not a large one, for the habitual smoker prefers a small apartment, in which the fumes of the drug hang about easily; and its reeking walls are unadorned save with a chromo plan of the chief buildings at Mecca, a crude portrait of a Hindu goddess, and oleographs of British royalty.

But Charley, being an inveterate smoker, could not resist the temptation of indulging in a smoke before going to sleep.

"'I also found in the body appreciable traces of morphinethe principal alkaloid of opiumfrom which I infer that the deceased was a confirmed opium-smoker.

Bismarck was then, as in later life, a constant smoker.

The growth and development of the brain having been once retarded, the youthful user of tobacco (especially the foolish cigarette-smoker) has established a permanent drawback which may hamper him all his life.

In half a minute such whiffs arose on all sides as it would have cheered the heart of a genuine smoker to behold.

We think the light pipe-smoker will find a combination of German and Turkish smoking-tobaccoes a happy thought.

Look!" Luffe, a mighty smoker in his days of health, had let his cigarette go out, had laid it half-consumed upon the edge of his plate.

The late increase in the tobacco duty is to be halved, so that the modest smoker may hope to fill his pipe for a penny less per ounce.

Rochow, who was a passionate smoker, would also have gladly done so, but did not venture.

There, too, was his tobacco-box; which proves that he was a rival smoker of Sir Walter Raleigh; the sword also with which he played Hamlet; and the identical lantern with which Friar Laurence discovered Romeo and Juliet at the tomb!

Once in awhile a rough and wholesome "smoker" is given.

Now a sincere smoker can do without smoking for hours on end, as long as the deprivation is voluntary.

An accomplished smoker may still follow the old system and call for a cigar to his liking, by the use of the old terms and names made familiar by years of experience, but the general run of smokers can only select, from a hundred or more boxes bearing names and words that are unfamiliar or unknown, a cigar that he thinks looks like one that he wants.

It looked to me a typical opium-smoker's bedroom.

Old Tom, an ardent smoker, was provided with a certain quantity of German tinder, well preserved in a box hermetically closed, and when they wanted it, he would only have to strike the tinder-box with the flint of the strand.