Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1880 — What Tobacco is Made Of. [ARTICLE]

W hat Tobacco is Made Of.

We have heard the tobacco-user claim that the weed was food and drink to him, but never thoroughly believed him until a British Parliamentary report on adulteration set forth the following schedule: “Sugar, alum, lime, flour or meal, rhubarb leaves, saltpeter, fuller’s earth, starch, malt commings, chromate of lead, peat, moss, molasses, burdock leaves, common salt, endive leaves, lampblack, gum, red dye, ablack dye composed of vegetable red and licorice, scraps of newspaper, cinnamon srick, cabbage leaves and straw brown paper.” This is convincing. Not only is it food and drink, but it is also home and land, paint-shop and literature, with drugs, oondiments and chemicals thrown in ad libitum. Verily, tobacco is potent, but a little diffusive.— Bouton Transcript, It is the man with the rheumatism who is every inoh * King.