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Re: CHAT drinking soup: (was: Malat (on behalf of Garrett))

From:Eric Christopherson <eric@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 8, 1998, 23:11
Adam Walker wrote:
> > I haven't paid any attention to this thread until just now so I may > have missed a previous reference to this or something similar, but in > Indonesian/Malay one "drinks" a cigarette!! Smoke is definitely > non-solid, but also non-liquid.
I think I read somewhere that people used to refer to smoking as drinking tobacco in the past, but I don't have any other information about that, unfortunately.