Smoking in the late 1700's (England)?

Question

I have a few questions for people who know a lot about the 1700s.

- How did people smoke (like with pipes, cigars, etc)?
- How did they light them up (like with matches)?

any help would be sooooo appreciated. thanks!

Answer 1

They used pipes and rolled their own tobacco, much like cigars today. The Native Americans, where we learned the practice of tobacco usage, used pipes for tobacco.

It was also appropriate for women to use snuff. Snuff was tobacco cut up into small pieces, flavored or scented, and then sucked into the nose so that the odors of everyday life could be kept out.

King James I in the early 1600s said that tobacco was terrific for digestion. It was considered a positive, for awhile, and then was later, as the smoke became obnoxious, seen as a real issue. That's why, often, men and women would retire after dinner to separate rooms, the men to smoke and drink brandy and the women to chat and use their snuff.

Answer 2

People in the 18th century often used pipes. They also chewed tobacco (which often came from the colony of Virginia). Since fireplaces were the main source of heat and light, that would be a convenient source for lighting one's pipe. There were no matches in the 18th century, only flint and char cloth.

Answer 3

People smoke filterless camel wides and they used to light them up with Turbo Jet Lighters.

NO reallly, if you just look at paintings you can see that clay pipes where the most popular. Also They would just use twigs and light them on fire and then light their pipes. Johann sebastian bach smoke a clay pipe. He lived during the 1700's.

Answer 4

both, women smoked cigars and pipes........they were lit with a match or a lighter(not like the norm).........smoking was popular and the nobility of the day sensationalized it........when the coloninst got the americas the tradition carried....tobacco and hemp was a cash crop.......did george and martha toke up?