He describes this practice as follows: The betel is a tree which is cultivated in the same manner as the grape-vine
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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
doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2018-054333