Richard Rowe in s (1881) wrote of Life in the London Street two or three score of thick-necked, low-browed young men and hobbydehoys, in greasy cords or threadbare pea-jackets, and a sprinkling of ugly, shabbily-dressed women, sprawling their elbows on porter-slopped tables in rough wooden boxes, smoking rank tobacco, drinking adulterated beer, and listening, in moping, unsocial silence, to the wiry jangle of a worn-out little square piano in a corner
And the difference is probably achieved by the lack of technological additives in the tobacco
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According to ASH (Action on Smoking and Health) smoking rates in the youth population (11-15 years) of the UK has been steadily declining since 1982, from 25% in 1982 down to 5% in 2018