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Previously eaten for its medicinal properties, opium smoking became widespread in China and the West during the 19th century

The blending of different tobaccos is an art and tobacco blenders will use different types of leaves to produce different burn rates and flavours just like wine makers and beer brewers do, to change the flavour of their wines or beers

Craigs relatively modest dwelling was subsequently occupied by other prominent merchants such as Robert Findlay of Easterhill (1748-1802), a tobacco importer who lived there from 1780 until his death

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There was also a great reservoir of the plague bacillus in Asia, where political and military upheavals in China helped to increase its range