A WARM PROCESS.
The use of tobacco is so general today that one would think it was known throughout the world, but this is far from being the case, as the following story will show. An Englishman whose duty took him to a very sparsely populated part of India engaged a native to wait upon him, and the latters wife was very interested and anxious to know what and how the white man ate, etc. This w r as not easy to find out, as his food had been sent out in a tiffin basket and consisted of tinned meat and salad, which needed no cooking. He lunched under a tree, and then leisurely lit a cigarette. This is what the native told his wife on his return home: “These white people are queer. We cook our food first, then eat it; they eat it first, then cook it inside them by drawing the fire through their mouths.”
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Cromwell Argus, Volume LXVIII, Issue 3485, 6 September 1937, Page 7
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