There's lots of sage brush in Eastern Oregon, and the 'Great Basin that extends to the south west. It grows sparsely because of the arid clime, but I always thought it might make for a good meat smoking fire, at least if it wasn't toxic.
Hated when it went from $0.05 to $0.15 tho… that dollar sure went far for a bag of chips, candy bar and some gum or now & laters way back when life sucked but shit wad cheap still
I bought a whole box after swipping 20 bucks from my dads wallet when I was a kid the gum was black so I decided to give everyone a piece if they blackened out their teeth when and smiled when the teacher entered the room, I was sent to sit in the hall and my gum got confiscated, even qorse I got a licken from my dad for swiping the 20
My favorite was the bubble gum cigs that you could blow the fake smoke (flour?) out of haha the gum flavor sucked though.,, they should have partnered with bazooka