Simon Clark, director of FOREST (Freedom Organization for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco
Soon began new wanderings, with their invariable return to the starting-point of Charleville: a few days in Paris, a year in England, four months in Stuttgart (where he was visited by Verlaine), Italy, France again, Vienna, Java, Holland, Sweden, Egypt, Cyprus, Abyssinia, and then nothing but Africa, until the final return to France
He, however, acknowledged that peoples experience varied, and one patient says he would as soon be without life as without stramonium, another might as well smoke so much dried cabbage leaves. By this time, ready-prepared stramonium cigarettes (and belladonna ones, too) were available over the counter and were also prescribed by doctors
Disgusted, I looked down at the ground