Last Smokers' Paradise Closes Tobacco: Stubbed Out Tobacco: Stubbed Out an Era Ends As Herbert Love, Glasgow's Only Remaining Old- School Gentleman's Smoke Shop, Shuts Down

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ITWAS the commodity that transformed a village north of the Clyde into the second city of the empire and brought untold wealth and status to Glasgow's merchant class.

Tobacco may have forged the expansion of Scotland's economic powerhouse, but yesterday saw the passing of the trade's remaining vestiges with the closure of the last independent tobacconist in Glasgow.

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Last Smokers' Paradise Closes Tobacco: Stubbed Out Tobacco: Stubbed Out an Era Ends As Herbert Love, Glasgow's Only Remaining Old- School Gentleman's Smoke Shop, Shuts Down

It was an unspectacular send-off for Herbert Love, a musty, mahoganybrown emporium tucked away in St Vincent Place for more than 100 years, as the last customers stocked up on favoured blends, cut- price pipes and cig...

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