Cigarette Products:

Buffalo Filter De Luxe Cigarettes The Black Hawk Tobacco Shop is pleased to introduce the Buffalo Filter Deluxe Cigarettes. The Native American cigarette brand Buffalo Deluxe is a robust blend of all natural tobacco. Comparable to WinstonŽ or CamelŽ Cigarettes, Buffalo cigarettes are for smokers who enjoy the pure taste of quality tobacco. The Buffalo Deluxe cigarette brand is an elegantly-flavored blend of tobacco that is available in six different flavors - Full Flavor, Light, Ultra Light, Menthol, Menthol Light, and Full Flavor Non-Filter. Both Buffalo 100's and Buffalo Kings Cigarettes come in sturdy hard packs. Buffalo Full Flavor Box Kings Buffalo Lights Box Kings Buffalo Menthol Box Kings       Buffalo Menthol Light Box Kings Buffalo Non-Filter Box Kings Buffalo Ultra Light Box Kings

The Social History of Smoking

George Latimer Apperson

Chapter 8:

A famous crony of Parr's, the learned Porson, was another devotee of tobacco. In November 1789 Parr wrote to Dr. Burney: "The books may be consulted, and Porson shall do it, and he will do it. I know his price when he bargains with me; two bottles instead of one, six pipes instead of two, burgundy instead of claret, liberty to sit till five in the morning instead of sneaking into bed at one: these are his terms:" and these few lines, it may be added, give a graphic picture of Porson. According to Maltby, Porson once remarked that when smoking began to go out of fashion, learning began to go out of fashion also—which shows what nonsense a learned man could talk.

Read More

The Social History of Smoking

George Latimer Apperson

Chapter 13:

King James I in his famous "Counter-blaste to Tobacco," hinted that the husband, by his indulgence in the habit, might "reduce thereby his delicate, wholesome, and cleane complexioned wife to that extremitie, that either shee must also corrupt her sweete breath therewith, or else resolve to live in a perpetuall stinking torment." His Majesty's style was forcible, if not elegant. There are also one or two references in the early dramatists. In Ben Jonson's "Every Man in his Humour," for instance, which was first acted in 1598, six years before King James blew his royal "Counter-blaste," Cob, the water-bearer, says that he would have any "man or woman that should but deal with a tobacco-pipe," immediately whipped. Prynne, in his attack on the stage, declared that women smoked pipes in theatres; but the truth of this statement may well be doubted. The habit was probably far from general among women, although Joshua Sylvester, a doughty opponent of the weed, was pleased to declare that "Fooles of all Sexes haunt it," i.e. tobacco.

Read More