The Anatomy of Tobacco
stem of any pipe, having previously disjoined it from the bowl, and insert into one end a cigar, and place the other in your mouth. Now having applied fire to the free end of the cigar draw in the breath, which, when it is ejected from the mouth, shall be found to consist in great part of the fume of the said cigar; from which it is evident that the stem alone of a pipe has been used in smoking tobacco (for who will deny that a cigar is tobacco?) without the agency of a bowl. Wherefore it is proved that the bowl is not an essential part of a pipe, but only a separable accident thereof.[1] And from this conclusion comes the corollary—that what are commonly called cigar-tubes
- ↑ Note here the objection of the Arabian Ebn Mascha ben Dûda:—"If instead of the cigar being placed in the stem of a pipe and the stem in the mouth, it be placed directly in the mouth, the smoke will be inhaled with as much or greater ease without any medium whatever being employed. So that neither bowl nor stem are essential parts, and a pipe therefore has no essential part, and therefore no essence. But that which has no essence has no existence; but a pipe certainly has existence, wherefore this cigar tube argument is like unto a broken hookah that will hold not rosewater, and is, indeed, bosh lakerdi" (empty talk).
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