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  • A club there is of smokers--dare you come
    To that close, clouded, hot, narcotic room?
    When, midnight past, the very candles seem
    Dying for air, and give a ghastly gleam;
    When curling fumes in lazy wreaths arise,
    And prosing topers rub their winking eyes.

    George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.180