Supposedly, while smoking a pipe of the first tobacco brought from America, Raleigh was extinguished by a terrified servant who doused him with a pitcher of beer. Walter Raleigh (1554 - October 29, 1618) was an English aristocrat, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is most remembered for popularizing tobacco in England. Colorization of "Raleigh's First Pipe In England," an illustration included in Frederick William Fairholt's "Tobacco, Its History And Associations," 1859.

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