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ber of persons who scruple not to render his Hfe 

 a burthen to him by obhging him to inhale clouds 

 of smoke, and from whom there may chance to 

 be no reasonable way of escaping. A regular 

 smoker never thinks of the inconvenience he is 

 causing to his neighbour; and, what is the worst 

 of all, he appears the whole time so provokingly 

 pleased with himself — so thoroughly convinced 

 that he is employing his time profitably because 

 he is doing something, 



I doubt very much whether the pain and incon- 

 venience occasioned by the use of this noxious 

 weed do not in the aggregate exceed the sum 

 total of pleasure enjoyed by those who indulge in 

 it, when we take into consideration the annoyance 

 it causes to those who do not smoke, the horrible 

 perfume of stale tobacco in the clothes of the 

 smoker, and the monstrous inconvenience, pain, 

 suffering, and misery endured by all who are 

 learning to smoke. 



We all know that the first pipe or cigar pro- 

 duces most disagreeable effects, nature wisely 

 rejecting a poisonous weed ; but these warnings 

 being unheeded, the suffering aspirant becomes in 

 time what he so much desires to be — a regular 



