GENERAL HEALTH HINTS 679 



ward road, which is never the case with tobacco. This 

 is so loathsome and disgusting and repulsive to the 

 system that in acquiring the tobacco habit, the novice 

 is desperately sick for days, sometimes for many weeks. 

 There is scare aly any other sickness so dreadful as 

 that caused by the tobacco to beginners. There is 

 dreadful vomiting, with splitting headache, livid lips, 

 parched tongue, and eyes like those of dead fish. 



''Then why do these poor fools persevere?— Be- 

 cause they are such very poor fools as to believe it 

 to be manly to smoke or chew! Why?— Because others 

 do it. Men or boys, even of independent minds, judge 

 for themselves as to what is right and proper or other- 

 wise, and will not be led into any habit or way of life 

 blindly, simply because others do it. 



''But now the young man has 'conquered his preju- 

 dices' and has 'learned to smoke.' What has he ac- 

 quired by it?— Nothing but the tobacco habit. Is there 

 no good in it whatever, no pleasure?— None; it is sim- 

 ply the tobacco habit which has such a mastery over 

 its victim that he must yield to its demands under the 

 penalty of intolerable pain and suffering, pains so great 

 that it is very difficult for the strongest men to endure 

 them. 



"I called at a gentleman's office one day, and found 

 him smoking. I said to him : 



" 'What would you give if you had never learned 

 to smoke?' He paused a moment, and replied: 



" 'Every dollar I have in the world.' 



" 'Then why do you not abandon the habit?' 



" 'I cannot now do that; I could not endure the 

 suffering it would cause me. ' 



' ' Ask any man of forty years, and he will tell you 

 he is very sorry he learned to use tobacco, but cannot 



