A SUBSTITUTE FOR TOBACCO.
A correspondent’'of a Calcutta paper makes a curious suggestion to tobaccosmokers. Alluding to thu alleged discovery,, by a Parisian chemist, that watercress is a perfect antidote to nicotine, ho says :—“ It lately entered into my head to try how some of it dried would smoke. To my great satisfaction I found 'that when put into ray pipe, after a couple of days’ drying in the sun, it had all the flavor of the best cavendish without the treacle, and it, was even stronger than cavendish. Here, then, is a perfect substitute for tobacco, without the deleterious and deadly poison so freely contained in the flatter ; and it is at the same time cheaper. Watercress, with its linn stalks and leaves, when cried requires no cutting to fit it for the pipe ; and while a pound of out tobacco ranges irora two to four rupees, here we have an article, a rupee's worth of which, when dried, would weigh more than a couple of pounds.”
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Dunstan Times, Issue 416, 8 April 1870, Page 3
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168A SUBSTITUTE FOR TOBACCO. Dunstan Times, Issue 416, 8 April 1870, Page 3
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