Tobacco tins were very common among miners. Unable to smoke down the mines, due to obvious fire risks, the miners would instead chew 'twist' tobacco. 'Twist' is made from dark- fired leaf ...

We ran a photo of Thomas Vanek on the contents page of our most recent print edition in which he may have had a tin of chewing tobacco in his pocket. A few pages later, we had an opinion piece ...

Tobacco tins were very common among miners. Unable to smoke down the mines, due to obvious fire risks, the miners would instead chew 'twist' tobacco. 'Twist' is made from dark- fired leaf ...