Vintage Graphic Art of Murder Manilia Paper Tobacco Labels from Uncle Daniel and Oren Scotten of Detroit.

Early tobacco printing "mock-ups" on manila paper for the Uncle Daniel company in Detroit, Michigan.  The engravings are fragile, as manila paper tends to eat itself.   It is usually given to children for drawings, but in this case it was used, apparently, to draw up snazzy graphics to market carcinogenic dried weeds to unsuspecting, ill-informed and trusting naives...not that Uncle Daniel knew, of course.  The tobacco companies didn't start obfuscating what their product did to people until much later.

Daniel was Daniel Scotten.  He was the uncle of Oren Scotten, a precocious young man who entered the tobacco business at sixteen years of age.  By the age of twenty-five, he owned the whole show.  The American Tobacco Company bought him out eventually, making young Oren a millionaire and major land owner in Detroit.   Scotten, who passed away in 1906, is now buried, it is fair to say, along with each and every single one of his customers. 

Mr. Scotten, who was not required to place warning labels on his lethal product, was a highly regarded businessman.  He was an Elk, the fire commissioner for a time, an art collector,  an avid hunter and although you won't see him reported as such, a murderer.  

Group of "Uncle Daniel" Tobacco labels on manila paper, circa 1900.  Collection Jim Linderman

Ghelyoon Okka Nargile Chillim One Hitter Bong

Ever since Mughal Emperor Akbar invented the hubble-bubble (aka Hookah) mankind has been cooling the smoke he puts into his lungs.  Provided here, (in addition to the early "super-relaxed" stoner shown) is a group of names for what smoke gobblers today call a bong.  Whatever you call it, hold the smoke in a long time.  Just like a roach hotel…draw it in, but don't let it out.

Nargile
Chillim
Huqqa
Gudugudaa
Marra Pipe
ghalyan (or ghelyoon)
Okka Pipe
One Hitter
Water Pipe

According to Wiki according to a study according to students surveyed 40.3 percent of college students had smoked from a hookah.  I suspect that is inflated, as some of the stoners likely hit the "yes" button several times expecting a candy bar to drop.

Someone I know, I am not going to say who,  used to pack shaved ice from the freezer compartment into a clay pipe for a nice cool smoke.  It still wrecked his lungs.  

Stoner Dude Snapshot circa 1960?  Collection Jim Linderman

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