Sublime tobacco! which, from east to west,

Cheers the Tar’s labor or the Turkman’s rest;

Which on the Moslem’s ottoman divides

His hours, and rivals opium and his brides;

Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand,

Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand;

Divine in hookahs, glorious in a pipe,

When tipped with amber, mellow, rich and ripe;

Like other charmers, wooing the caress

More dazzlingly when daring in full dress;

Yet they true lovers more admire, by far,

Thy naked beauties – Give me a cigar!

Lord Byron

The Island, Canto II, stanza XIX (1823)