It looks like a chopping knife (as in mincing and dicing). The round profile would work well for rocking it back and forth on a cutting surface. If it is indeed a tobacco knife, it possibly might have been used to chop up the leaf for smoking a a pipe or home-made cigar. I have a photo from Nat'l Geo somewhere of a women and her daughter chopping up tobacco this way, but the implement was different.
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