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revalent in ‘the States,’ nor is it, as in Great Britai 
: ain 
reland, almost entirely confined to the poorer classes. Mone 
bers of the House of Representatives and of the Senate, doc- 
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AN AMERICAN SMOKER. 
tors, judges, barristers, and attorneys chew tobacco almost as 
generally as the laboring classes in the old country. Evenin 
a court of justice, more especially in the Western States, itis 
no unusual thing to see judge, jury, and the gentlemen of the 
bar, all chewing and spitting as liberally as the crew of a 
homeward-bound West Indiaman. It must indeed be con- 
fessed that Brother Jonathan loves tobacco ‘not wisely but 
too well,’ and that the habits which are induced by his man- 
ner of using it are far from ‘elegant.’ The truth is, he neither 
smokes nor chews like a gentleman; he lives in a land of 
liberty, and takes his tobacco when and where he pleases. 
He spits as freely as he smokes and chews—upon the carpet 
or in the fire-place—for he is not particular as to where he 
squirts his copious saliva, and does not think with the late 
Dr. Samuel Parr, that a spitting-box is a necessary article of 
household furniture. The free-born citizen of the States 
laughs at the aristocratic restrictions imposed on smoking in 
England, where, on board of the numerous steamboats that 
