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Montreal Pharmacy, Canada. Allegedly (according to this card) the largest (and most luxiously appointed) of its kind in the world!
No Smoking, LadiesThis West End restaurant was one of the first to reserve tables for non-smokers after objections were raised. These three ladies disobey the notice on their table
Boots advertisement, 1913Advertisement for Boots the Chemists from 1913, offering Drugs, Gifts and Your ideals realised. Date: 1913
Woman Smoking 1940SA young housewife exhales a stream of smoke as she takes a break from her household tasks. By the end of World War Two, nearly half of the women in Britain had a smoking habit
Old & New Pipes / HeathThe old way of smoking a pipe & the new way: an upright Georgian gent smokes his long stemmed clay pipe while a semi-recumbent Regency fop, puffs away on his hookah
Cigars LabelCigar label for Havana cigars manufactured by M Valle in Cuba
Gentlemen Smoking CigarsA languid group of Victorian gentlemen smoking cigars in front of the fire
John Bews shop front in Guernsey, Channel IslandsJohn Bew, Wholesale & Retail Tobacco & Cigar Merchant, and Ship Insurance Agent -- his shop front in Guernsey, Channel Islands, with a female assistant standing in the doorway. Date: circa 1905
A Smoking Party C. 1825A gentlemens smoking party
Lighting a CigaretteA monochrome woman lights her cigarette from a candle in a red and black interior
Smoking & Jazzing / PanJazzing
Tobacco Ban ThreatBeware, Mr Smoker, your turn is next ! - a prophetic satire from the Prohibition Era in America
Raleigh SmokingSir Walter Raleigh, credited with bringing the tobacco habit to Britain, enjoys his pipe
East End Opium DenAn opium den in Londons East End - sixpenceworth, which is about a thimble-full and half as much again, seems to be the ordinary allowance
European PipesPipes from various parts of Europe - Norway, France, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Bohemia and Greece [for details see the text]
Raleighs PipesHis pipes and tobacco pouch
United States Air Force - Convair VT-29B O-51-3811United States Air Force Convair VT-29B (msn 239) O-51-3811. Entering service as a standard T-29B, 3811 was converted to NT-29B with extra dorsal and ventral radomes
Incredible hallucinations brought on by smoking OpiumSeeing Everything - The wild and incredible hallucinations brought on by smoking Opium. Date: 1905
AMERICAN TOBACCO GROWERAn American tobacco grower sits leaning on a barrel of the tobacco which will be sent away to poison the lives of millions of wretched victims doomed to a miserable death Date: 1871
HASHISH & ASSASSINSTHE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN drugs his corps of assassins with hashish, which inspires them with dreams of the houris they will find when they die and go to Heaven... Date: 13th century
Manufacture of Opium in IndiaRaising revenue of opium saw large profits in the drug to China. Photograph showing an intermediate stage in the process of preparation
Comic postcard, William & Rose, with a pair of reefs down - a completely blank, blue rectangle. What could it possibly mean? Answers on a postcard, please! Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Customer in department store - walk this way Date: 20th century
Advert for Beechams Pills, 1925 Date: 1925
Advert, T & H Smith Limited, Edinburgh and GlasgowAdvert for T & H Smith Limited, Morphine and Codeine manufacturers, Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland. 1905
Advert, Jollys Duchess PillsAdvert for Jollys Duchess Pills for Pale Faces, from British Druggists Ltd, Oxford Street, London. 1897
ILN cover - Dr. Mildred C. RebstockChloromycetin synthesised for the first time by Dr. Mildred C. Rebstock. Chloromycetin was discovered to be a powerful means of fighting typhus and typhoid. On March 27th 1949, Parke, Davis and Co
Adverts, T & H Smith Limited, John Beggs Scotch WhiskyAdverts for T & H Smith Limited, manufacturers of morphine and codeine, Edinburgh, London and Glasgow, and John Beggs Scotch Whisky, Royal Lochnagar Distillery, Scotland. 1905
Chinese workers picking poppies for opium. 1930s
Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada, USAVirginia Street (looking north), Reno, Nevada, USA. Date: 1930
Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street, California, USAHollywood Boulevard and Vine Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, with Pantages Theatre on the left and the Taft Building on the right. Date: 1947
Street pharmacist with tray of drugs, China, East AsiaStreet pharmacist with his tray of drugs, China, East Asia. Date: 1922
Advertisement on a postcard, Evans PastillesPharmaceuticals advertisement on a postcard, Evans Pastilles for sore throats (in Spanish), with an elegant woman in a hat. Date: circa 1908
Advertisement on a postcard, Evans Carlsbad SaltsPharmaceuticals advertisement on a postcard, Evans Carlsbad Salts for liver, gout and rheumatism (in Spanish), with an elegant woman in a hat. Date: circa 1908
Advertisement on a postcard, Evans MembroidsPharmaceuticals advertisement on a postcard, Evans Membroids (in Spanish), with an elegant woman in a hat. Date: circa 1908
Advert,s Moss, Druggist, Operative & Experimental Chemist, High Street, Cheltenham. 1826
People smoking cigarettesA lady offers cigarettes to her companions 1892
Professor Paul Ehrlich (1854 - 1915), Nobel Prize-winning German Jewish physician and scientistand Dr. Sahachiro Hata (1873 - 1938) prominent Japanese bacteriologist, working in Frankfort laboratory
SMOKING ACCESSORIESA man wearing a ring and cufflinks shows off some extremely stylish smoking accessories, including an ashtray, lighter, cigarette case, pipe, candle holder &c Date: 1930s
VICTIMS OF HASHISHFour North African victims of hashish, driven out of their minds by the drug and brought under the care of Dr Auguste Voisin of the Salpetriere, Paris. Date: 1876
A CIGARETTE AND A COFFEEA young woman sits in a comfortable armchair, jacket over her shoulders, and enjoys a cigarette with her coffee. Date: 1940s
MY FIRST SMOKE (2 OF 2)A young man has his first smoke from a pipe, but feels rather unwell as a result (2 of 2). Date: 1882
MY FIRST SMOKE (1 OF 2)A young man enjoys his first smoke from a pipe (1 of 2). Date: 1882
IVORY CIGARETTE HOLDERCarved ivory cigarette holders are fashionable... Date: 1930s
MAN LIGHTING CIGARETTEA young man lights up a cigarette outside in the street Date: 1960s
CHOKED BY SMOKERSA lady is choked by smokers as she walks along the pavement Date: 1843
LIGHTING HIS PIPEWhile a young man smokes a very long pipe, his partner lights it with a hot coal from the stove Date: 1850
OPIUM SMOKING TOOLSThe equipment of a serious Chinese opium smoker Date: 1893