"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.