It's older than I thought!

[Wilson Gray]

  Harper's Weekly,  April 15, 1893, p. 361, c. 1
ad, “Don’t _Tobacco Spit_ or [Tobacco?] Smoke Your Life Away”

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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