History of tobacco brought to Spain for its flowers, but "Now we use it to a greater extent for the sake of its virtues than for its beauty". John Hawkins was the first to bring tobacco seeds to England. William Harrison's "English Chronology" mentions tobacco smoking in the country as of 1573, before Sir Walter Raleigh brought the first "Virginia" tobacco to Europe from the Roanoke Colony, referring to it as "tobah" as early as 1578. In 1595 Anthony Chute published "Tabaco", which repeated earlier arguments about the benefits of the plant and emphasised the health-giving properties of pipe-smoking. The importation of tobacco
Man with a Pipe Man with a Pipe Man with a Pipe, also referred to as Portrait of an American Smoker, Portrait of an American Smoking and American Smoking, is a painting by the French Cubist artist Jean Metzinger. The work was reproduced on the cover of catalogue of the "Exhibition of Cubist and Futurist Pictures", Boggs & Buhl Department Store, Pittsburgh, forming part of a show in 1913 that traveled to several U.S. cities: Milwaukee, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, New York, and Philadelphia. In 1914 a catalogue was printed for the occasion of the Milwaukee leg of the show, 16 April to 12 May, titled