Chewing tobacco

Chewing tobacco is a type of smokeless tobacco product that is placed between the cheek and lower gum to draw out its flavor. It consists of coarsely chopped aged tobacco that is flavored and often sweetened; it is not ground fine like dipping tobacco. Unwanted juices are spat after use. Chewing tobacco is a source of nicotine and therefore highly addictive. Quitting chewing tobacco use is as challenging as smoking cessation.

Quotes

• Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.
  • Thomas J. Jarvis in North Carolina Christian Advocate (19 March 1908), p. 3

• America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco.
  • Auguste Bartholdi (1871), quoted by Claude Singer in a letter to The New York Times (3 May 1986)

• Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco.
  • Attributed to Will Rogers in The Friar's Club Bible of Jokes, Pokes, Roasts, and Toasts (2001), p. 316

• The man was chewing tobacco, and the muzzle of ice held his lips so rigidly that he was unable to clear his chin when he expelled the juice. The result was that a crystal beard of the color and solidity of amber was increasing its length on his chin. If he fell down it would shatter itself, like glass, into brittle fragments. But he did not mind the appendage. It was the penalty all tobacco-chewers paid in that country, and he had been out before in two cold snaps. ... So he continued monotonously to chew tobacco and to increase the length of his amber beard.
  • Jack London, "To Build a Fire" in The Century Magazine (August 1908)

• Blain holds out the tobacco to Ramirez, who swats at the offending object as if it were alive.
  RAMIREZ (shouting): Get that stinkin' thing out of my face, Blain!
  Grinning, Blain proffers the plug to each man, each one refusing; they've done it a thousand times. It's an old gag but they obviously care for the man in a big way.
  BLAIN: ...bunch of slack-jawed faggots around here... (holds up plug) ...this stuff will put hair on your hogleg... guaranteed... make you a God-damned sexual ty-ran-toe-sore-ass... just like me.
  • Predator (1987 film); revised script by Jim Thomas and John Thomas (7 April 1986)

External links

• "The Art of Spitting~Clint Eastwood~El Arte de Escupir", NeuroticFilmsOficial, YouTube (10 October 2013)