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Show When Tobacco Was Taboo. In 1G38 the Massachusetts general court ordered, a writer comments, "that no man shall take any tobacco within 20 poles of any house, o- so 1 near as may cilanger tlio same." In 179S an net was passed fo'blddina Ihr parrying of lire through the streets except ex-cept In a covered vessel, smoking, or having In one's possession "any lighted ! pipe or scgar" in the streets or on thn ' wharves. The penally was $2. If lh c.PVndor was In a ropewalk, Ihe pen-plty pen-plty was from $5 to $100. This prohibition pro-hibition of 1TDS was not repealed until ilvSO. |