Hello Sailor!

Struggling with your nicotine addiction? Tried giving up and nothing works?

The here is the person to blame.

No not the two jolly guys in the ad, but the bloke on the packet. It's Sir Walter Raleigh, favourite of Queen Lizzy the First.

Yes, yes, he did noble things like put his cloak in a puddle to save her highness' Manolo Blahnik's from the mud, but he also brought back tobacco from the New World and introduced the old world to the joys of portable foliage for the burning and inhaling thereof.

From the August 1979 edition of Mechanix Illustrated.