Rampant adulteration How people as poor as beggars could afford to go drinking tea "above their station," cannot be explained by smuggling alone (in the latter half of the 18th century, at least half the tea entering Britain was smuggled).
要解釋窮如乞丐，何以能夠「逾份」喝茶，光以走私解釋是不夠的（十八世紀下半葉至少有一半茶葉來自走私）。