TOBACCO LEAVES 



United States, Scandinavia, Holland, 

 North Germany, and Switzerland. 



In the Latin countries, for many gener- 

 ations, it was considered discourteous to 

 offer a friend or a guest a ready-made 

 cigarette. Were you alone with your 

 friend, you rolled the cigarette yourself, 

 and offered it to him, or else handed him 

 the picadura and papers for him to use 

 himself. At your own house, your wife or 

 daughters rolled the cigarettes, and served 

 them along with a candle or taper, lamp 

 or burning charcoal, with which they were 

 lighted. Commerce and manufactures 

 change manners, and the hand-made and 

 machine-made cigarette have driven the 

 good old custom to the wall. Yet in the 

 Latin-American countries and in Spain, 

 Southern France, and Italy the ancient 

 custom survives in many old-fashioned 

 families. In Moslem families, the wife, 

 or one of the wives, rolls the Turkish leaf 



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