“…Elite women typically found the habit disgusting. Paget, himself a nonsmoker who suffered from the thick smoke in national clubs, tried to persuade Hungarian ladies that “it only depended on themselves to banish smoking and such abominations from their drawing rooms whenever they pleased.” The women told Paget (1834, 1, 271–73), however, that Hungarian men would “prefer their pipes to our drawing rooms at any time; besides the woman who should attempt such a thing would be exposed to neglect and insult of every kind.” Julia Pardoe (1840, 1, 25), another English traveler, also characterized Hungarian smoking habits as “a blot upon the national character.” Evidently concurring, Széchenyi (1830a, 67–69; see also Lampland 1994, 293) tried to curb national smoking while promoting the masculinity of refinement: “We cannot expect that our beauties would love to be in the company of a patriot, who, I daresay, would visit in greasy boots and fill up the house with pipe fumes.”…”