Air pockets in the lungs and chest
The first two ads are actually from Taschen's new book: All-American Ads 1900-1919" (yet another thing to add to my wish list)
It was used to look particularly elegant and also kept the smoke far away from the noble lady
Frequent weed smokers may experience leukoplakia, the development of white patches inside the mouth that can sometimes be precancerous, and oral candidiasis, a fungal infection leading to white, cottage cheese-like patches on the tongue and inner cheeks
(Left: Les fumeurs et les priseurs New York Public Library) By 1575, provincial synods in the New World already had to address the fact that Indians, converting to Catholicism, had brought the practice of smoking into churches during the liturgytobacco smoke, in their traditions, evoked the spirits