>   Amos Root, despite inventing the smoker, was very 
> anti-smoking.  He promised a free bee smoker to anyone who wrote 
> him saying they'd quit smoking cigarettes.

When reading letters to the editor in a "Gleanings" from the late 
1800's, I came across one letter from a  beekeeper who had received a 
smoker from A.I. He was returning his reward, as he had once again 
taken up the smoking of tobacco.
Mike


   

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