When bark from this tree is unavailable, a number of substitutes can be used to prepare tobacco snuff, including almond-scented Sloanea and fragrant Bignoniaceae lianas, though they are considered inferior
Clean, legible, structurally intact examples from those periods are genuinely scarce and carry prices that reflect that scarcity
And yes, chewing it releases more flavor, and nicotine, as with other chewing tobaccos
However, smoking prevalence and associated ill health continued to rise in the developed world in the first three decades following Richard Doll's discovery, with governments sometimes reluctant to curtail a habit seen as popular as a result and increasingly organised disinformation efforts by the tobacco industry and their proxies
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Fully extinct - and good riddance