It may have been a disgruntled old mans way of paying literature back
He has never done any thing for the men, by which he would spend a cent of his own money. Alfred Davenport , 5th New York Infantry, in a letter to his mother, April 21, 1862 Saw Wardell to-day, and he gave me some tobacco, which saved my life for 24 hours at least. Andersonville prisoner Eugene Forbes , on an encounter with a fellow POW, in his diary, November 15, 1864 I have given up smoking
Mercury thermometers hung in the barn and outside it, as well
The addictive drug in tobacco and all tobacco products (think cigars, cigarettes, e-cigarettes, etc.) is nicotine
Smoking behaviour and individual well-being: a fresh look at the effects of the 2005 public smoking ban in Italy
The modifier goes on the problem-oriented service, not the preventive one