28 ANTI-TOBACCO. 



abuse should be those of noble women, whose senses 

 have been outraged, whose health has been undermined 

 whose children have been born with a degenerated 

 constitution, because the lords of creation have been 

 pleased to indulge from boyhood in an unhealthful and 

 repulsive habit? 



Physicians very generally agree in the opinion that 

 much of the positive illness, and still more of the 

 lingering invalidism of women, are chargeable upon the 

 tobacco pestilence. Their more sensitive frames and 

 dehcate constitutions peculiarly expose them to this 

 noxious influence. While the hardships and deprivations 

 of poverty, — immensely enhanced by the waste of means 

 and money thus engendered, — the curse of the dramshop, 

 the fire-water, and the fire-pipe, inflicted on the mothers, 

 the wives, the daughters, and sisters of the land, are 

 offences that cry to heaven. 



Indictment Five, 



The use of tobacco becomes a7i ejtslaving habit. Like 

 the deadly boa-constrictor, when it once winds its fatal 

 folds around its victim, it can scarcely ever be shaken 

 off; and even when it is, it always lies in wait to steal back 

 and regain its hold upon its subject at the opportune 

 moment. Drunkenness itself is not more a passion than 

 chewing and smoking. He who has once formed the 

 habit is ever after a slave, and has a master who says, 

 " Come," and he cometh, and " Go," and he goeth. The 

 victim has parted with his manly freedom forever. He 

 has a chain, as much as the Algerine captive, round his 

 body and round his soul. The first cry, so jailers say, 



