Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1904 — A Contiguous Smoke. [ARTICLE]

A Contiguous Smoke.

In the Philippines the use of tobacco is universal. The native child acquires the tobacco habit as soon as it is able to walk. In the northern provinces especially it is no uncommon sight to see a child five or six years old puffing vigorously at a big cigar. The women smoke folly as much as the men and commonly smoke cigars where the men use cigarettes. In the northern parts of Luson Immense cigars often a couple of feet long and aa thick as the wrist are

used. Such a cigar Is suspended from a rafter of the house by a string and smoked during the day by all the members of the family as desired.