Coffin Nails: The Tobacco Controversy in the 19th Century

Return to Young Smokers: Easy Availability of Tobacco

Harper's Weekly 11/21/1857

EFFECTS OF THE PANIC.

“Bob, times is hard, shure! These `Sen
Niklis' Old Sodgers ain't nuthin like they was
before this Panick. Can't raise a stump now,
mor'n a inch long.”

“They is, Tom!”