Commercial brands of stramonium cigarettes fitted nicely into this context and were not seen as a quack remedy -- doctors recommended them as a convenient way of inhaling the drug.
They were widely used in x-ray machines, spark-gap radio transmitters, arc lighting and quack medical electrotherapy devices from the 1880s to the 1920s.
Snowy owl calls are varied, but the alarm call is a barking, almost quacking "krek-krek"; the female also has a softer mewling "pyee-pyee" or "prek-prek".