sotweed

Certainly her mind didn't count for much: in the sotweed suburb of South Richmond, no mind did.

Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

The old story of how the earlier settlers purchased their wives with from one hundred twenty to one hundred fifty pounds of tobacco per woman -- a pound of sotweed for a pound of flesh, -- is too well known to need repetition here; suffice to say it did not become a custom.

Woman's Life in Colonial Days Carl Holliday

We each of us stuck in our mouths a pipe of sotweed, and now began to look about us. "

The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897