A reader asked him about a song called “Lady Nicotine” and Steyn tracked it down for his “Song of the Week”:
I’m sitting in ashes of regret myself. Not quite three centuries after Johann Sebastian Bach’s contribution to the genre, it seems almost certain that the Tobacco Songbook has no new leaves to turn over. But it had a good run before it all went up in smoke like the eponymous rings of Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra’s old theme song:
Puff! Puff! Puff!
Puff your cares away
Puff! Puff! Puff!
Night and day…
