TOBACCO LEAVES 



there they would stand and roll cigarettes 

 all day long, and smoke and puff them 

 and blow the smoke through their nos- 

 trils, and make rings and go through all 

 the tricks of the fancy smoker until they 

 had gotten the more daring to purchase 

 their wares. After that it became a fad, 

 and the dandy of the day was the one 

 who could sport his eye-glass, rattan cane, 

 pointed shoes, and Chinese cigarette to ef- 

 fect the greatest show. I won't say that 

 it did not make a great many of the gen- 

 tlemen of fashion very sick. They could 

 smoke cigars, but the cigarette habit was 

 a novelty then, and the veteran of to-day 

 who consumes half a dozen packages in 

 twenty-four hours would laugh at the 

 amount of coughing and expectorating 

 and uneasiness caused by the consump- 

 tion of one of the slender articles brought 

 over by our heathen friends." 



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