Tobacco: What It Is Made Of

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 23, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 49.

Tobacco: What It Is Made Of

TOBACCO.—What tobacco is made of. We have heard a 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 meat, rhubarb leaves, saltpeter, fuller's-earth, starch, malt, cummin, chromate of lead, peat, moss, molasses, burdock leaves, lamp-black, gum, red dye, a black dye composed of vegetables, red licorice, scraps of newspapers, cinnamon stick, cabbage leaves, and straw-brown paper."

This is convincing. Not only is it food and drink, but it is also house and land, paint shop and literature, with drugs, condiments, and chemicals thrown in ad lib.—Boston Transcript.