وقد نُشر كتاب "The Fragrant Weed: Some of the Good Things Which Have been Said or Sung about Tobacco" في عام 1907 بين عدد كبير من الكتب، وكانت السطور التالية من قصيدة "A Bachelor's Views" التي كتبها "توم هول" تُوضح الموقف المعهود في كثير من الكتب:وتم نشر كل هذه الأعمال في فترة سبقت شيوع السجائر كالشكل البارز والمسيطر على كافة أشكال استهلاك التبغ، حيث كان الغليون والسيجار ومضغ التبغ ما زال عاديًا ومألوفًا.
"The Fragrant Weed: Some of the Good Things Which Have been Said or Sung about Tobacco", published in 1907, contained, among many others, the following lines from the poem "A Bachelor's Views" by Tom Hall that were typical of the attitude in many of the books:These works were all published in an era before the cigarette had become the dominant form of tobacco consumption and pipes, cigars, and chewing tobacco were still commonplace.