160 TOBACCO : ITS HISTORY. 



There must be then a constitutional peculiarity 

 —a certain nervous system — a particular brain, 

 for which tobacco is intended. How important 

 must be, therefore, the results of smoking to the 

 individual and to society, as a moral agent for 

 good or for evil, if nature has thought proper to 

 give the faculty to some and to deny it to others, 

 whilst it confessedly acts energetically on the 

 very masterpiece of her developments ! 



Curious facts on this point are matters of com- 

 mon observation. These must ultimately tend 

 to elucidate and explain the mysteries of this 

 wonderful modificator in all its aspects. 



' In North America," observes Mr. Johnston, "the 

 effects which tobacco produces, divide, physiologically, 

 entire regions from each other. The States of intellectual 

 New England and New York, for example, taken as a whole, 

 appear to dislike the use of tobacco ; at least there is a 

 very large, thinking, and conscientious body of men in 

 those States who are exerting themselves to repress and 

 suppress the use of the weed, and who even desire a 

 legislative enactment to prevent it. 



*' The Western and Southern States, on the other hand, 

 largely, and almost universally, indulge in tobacco ; and 

 one cannot travel from New York towards those States 

 without coming in contact with the practices of smoking 

 and chewing in their most offensive forms. 



"In the one region the mass of thoughtful and religious 



