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a common right and interest, is blighted by the trail of 

 smoke which the cigar or pipe leaves behind it ; that the 

 dinner-tables of college commencements or private fes- 

 tivity are enveloped in clouds of poisonous and acrid 

 smoke, painful to every sense, except to those whose 

 senses have by long usage been dragooned into calling 

 bitter sweet, and sweet bitter. Even the sacred haunts of 

 the Muses, the libraries of the learned, the parlors of 

 elegant life, as well as the exchanges of business, and the 

 offices of trade and finance, are blasted by these fumes of 

 the weed, which are bad enough when fresh from the 

 lighted cigar, but which, grown stale, are the very opposite 

 to airs from Araby the blest. 



It is true some w^omen of old smoked their pipes, and 

 some still use the more dangerous cigarette ; but as a 

 general custom women are exempt from the evil. They 

 detest and loathe it in their fathers, husbands, and sons, as 

 a general thing, though some may be so weak when the 

 point-blank question is put to them, whether they like the 

 smoke of a cigar or not, as to say, contrary to their real 

 feeling, that they do, while at heart they hate it. How 

 can pure and refined women endure the presence of 

 men, such as we meet with every day in the streets and 

 cars and stores, whose breath is a stench, whose lips are 

 coated over with the remains of the quid, and whose 

 clothing exhales the stale effluvia of countless dead cigars ! 

 Yet such are the companions which King Tobacco furnishes 

 to the scenes of private life — to the parlor, the table, the 

 bridal-chamber, the sick-room ; and to the public assembly 

 — the church, the sociable, the ball-room, and the concert- 

 hall ! Can we think it strange that some of the most 

 eloquent voices lifted up against this widespread social 



