No unprejudiced person who has given thought to the subject can question the propriety of dividing our history into two periods--the pre-smoking and the smoking.
When Raleigh, in honor of whom England should have changed its name, introduced tobacco into this country, the glorious Elizabethan age began.

I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf ear.

I know, I feel, that with the introduction of tobacco England woke up from a long sleep.

Suddenly a new zest had been given to life.

The glory of existence became a thing to speak of.