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according to communications which have reached me 

 through a medium of highly purified spiritual affinities.' 



' After dinner nothing ever was so good as a pipe, taken 

 with a glass or two of brandy — not that I cared for alcohol, 

 O dear no ! but this I do say, that the more I smoked the 

 better I worked.' 



' The depopulation of France is directly involved in the 

 use of the pernicious plant called tobacco, as was proved 

 by my experiments on cocks and rabbits (Dr. Depierris). 

 The manufacture and sale of tobacco are, very properly, 

 entirely in the hands of the government ; it can, therefore, 

 regulate the output, increase or diminish the quantity, or 

 cut off the supply altogether, if either one or the other 

 course be deemed advisable in the public interest. My 

 argument was, in the first place, based upon experiments 

 on animal organisms conducted under my own eyes, and 

 in the second place, on reports furnished by Prefects of 

 Departments. Those reports demonstrated the alarming 

 fact that in ten departments where each inhabitant smoked 

 on an average 1490 grammes of tobacco in the year, the 

 families having seven children and upwards were in the 

 proportion of sixty-eight in every 100,000 of the population; 

 while in ten other departments where the average consump- 

 tion of tobacco was only 451 grammes per head, the 

 proportion of families of seven children for every 100,000 

 inhabitants rose to eighty-one ; the still-born children 

 numbered only 156, against 11 24 in the former case. 

 Hence the significant inference that the use of tobacco led 

 directly to degeneracy of the human race.' 



' But tobacco may be used in moderation without injury, 

 if men would but keep away from the little glasses of 

 brandy, absinthe, and other similar liqueurs.' 



' Tobacco produces sluggishness and loss of will power.' 



