| Show A queer bbate coda in the old code of massachusetts and other new england states there were once very severe penalties prescribed against the use of tobacco in any form A statute dated 1632 forbade the use of tobacco by any person in any place public or private under benaly of a fine of one penny for each offense this law not provin gf effective another was passed two years later of much greater severity all tobacco users were ordered to discontinue the vile habit tavern keepers were finable five shillings for permitting smoking on their premises while the fine for every offense in the private use of tho weed even in one own house wu two fR and and six pence for |
