Booze and Fags
Christopher Hitchens
- Tobacco: A History by V.G. Kiernan
Radius, 249 pp, £18.99, December 1991, ISBN 0 09 174216 1 - The Faber Book of Drink, Drinkers and Drinking edited by Simon Rae
Faber, 554 pp, £15.99, November 1991, ISBN 0 571 16229 0
Hard by the market in Cambridge is or was Bacon’s the tobacconist, and on Bacon’s wall, if it stands yet, there’s an engraved poem by Thomas Calverley of which I can still quote a stave or two when maundering over the port and nuts (before the brandy stage):
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