"Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences."

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Animals are murdered to produce meat; vegetables are torn up, peeled, and chopped; most of what we eat is treated with fire; and chewing is designed remorselessly to finish what killing and cooking began. People naturally prefer that none of this should happen to them. Behind every rule of table etiquette lurks the determination of each person present to be a diner, not a dish.

— Margaret Visser