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A man with an extra large head exhales smoke from an enormous cigar. Coloured lithograph, c. 1880, after T. Worth.

The figure of a man with extra large head made up from cigars, pipes, tobacco leaves, etc. Coloured lithograph by T. Worth?, c. 1880.

Comic sketch of a fat man being rowed in a boat with the name of cigar importer below. Woodcut, early 19th century.

How you can make money out of garlic, cigars, whisky pickled onions and curry.

A group of five heads; three men smoking tobacco and two women taking snuff. Coloured lithograph by F-S. Delpech, c. 1823, after L. Boilly.

Two men wearing revolving top hats with several attachments for optical aids and tobacco etc. Coloured etching by R. Seymour, 1830.

Men of different classes and nationalities smoking in different ways. Coloured lithograph.

People causing a nuisance by smoking in the street. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1827.

A bearded man in a bathing-costume requests a light fo rhis cigar from a fully-dressed British couple walking on the beach at Ostend: they are shocked. Coloured lithograph by A. Bry, c. 1850.

Joseph Fletcher Green. Colour lithograph by L. Ward (Spy), 1890.

Smoking ephemera : advertising and packaging. Box 2.

A smoker with huge head exhales cigar smoke which forms the words "try one". Coloured lithograph, c. 1879, after T. Worth.

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Joseph Fletcher Green. Colour lithograph by L. Ward (Spy), 1890.

Smoking ephemera : advertising and packaging. Box 2.

The figure of a man with extra large head made up from cigars, pipes, tobacco leaves, etc. Coloured lithograph by T. Worth?, c. 1880.

People causing a nuisance by smoking in the street. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1827.

A smoker with huge head exhales cigar smoke which forms the words "try one". Coloured lithograph, c. 1879, after T. Worth.