Note 790 — ACT IV. SCENE I.
Reading edition
whiffler] i. e. whiffer, puffer—of tobacco, which Vapour sold. “Taking the whiff” (an expression of which the meaning is uncertain) was one of the accomplishments of a smoker: see B. Jonson’s Every Man out of his Humour—Works, ii. 9, 97. ed. Gifford.