Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 278, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1912 — Found Tobacco Popular. [ARTICLE]

Found Tobacco Popular.

Compilers of the "Statistical Account of Scotland,” published in 1791, did not find tea drinking much in vogue. They reported that “the chief luxuries in the rural districts are snuff, tobacco and whisky. Tea and sugar are little used, but the use of whisky has become very great. The use of tobacco may almost be said to be excessive, especially among the female sex. There is scarce a young woman by the time she has been taught to spin but has also learned to smoke. Smoking seems to have been introduced as an antidote to rheumatism and ague. The favorable alternation with respect to these diseases has produced only a greater avidity for tobacco.