Tobacco
Tobacco in dreams often carries the scent of habit—those patterns we return to for comfort or distraction, sometimes at a cost. The dream may ask whether what soothes you also numbs you, or if companionship and ease can coexist with the risk of waste.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for tobacco, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of tobacco, denotes success in business affairs, but poor returns in love.
To use it, warns you against enemies and extravagance.
To see it growing, foretells successful enterprises. To see it dry in the leaf, ensures good crops to farmers, and consequent gain to tradesmen.
To smoke tobacco, denotes amiable friendships.
Fontaine, 1862
For a boy to dream of chewing tobacco, is a sign of poverty, as rum and tobacco-chewing go together: to dream of smoking foretells waste, but is not exactly an omen of poverty, though waste always precedes that state. If you dream of seeing large piles of tobacco, it is a sign of bad luck and loss in some speculation. To dream you take snuff is a bad omen in love affairs, but if you dream you sneeze when you take it, it is a sign of long life.