From: fuerzo@earthlink.net   
      
   On 12 Jan 2005 19:37:49 -0800, "Wyvern75"  wrote:   
      
   >Spittons and Cuspidors were for spitting and for putting cigars after   
   >they were finished.  There was always a threat of fires and a lit but   
   >unattended cigar could start a building on fire.   
      
   I asked my 80 year old mother about all this last night - first time   
   we've ever discussed spittoons.   
      
   She said when she was growing up in Arkansas that spittoons were   
   everywhere. They were in every building in multiple locations.  She   
   said that chewing tobacco plugs was very common.  The men who did it   
   often had yellow teeth.  After they spit out a plug she remembered   
   there would sometimes be dark colored drool running out of the side of   
   their mouth.   
      
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