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SO strong, that this custom is increasing, and one who 

 walks through the streets of a city may see that it is 

 no longer confined to men, but is daily becoming more 

 common amongst boys." . . . There is not a solitary 

 physician who will contradict the statement, that these 

 young smokers are inflicting irreparable injury upon their 

 constitutions, are poisoning the very springs of life, and 

 will transmit to their descendants weaker bodies and 

 weaker brains. 



" Every medical man will testify that this juvenile smok- 

 ing is an unmixed evil, detrimental alike to body and 

 mind, and pointing inevitably to racial degeneracy." 



Sir Benjamin Brodie (" London Lancet ") asks : "What 

 will be the result if this habit be continued by future gene- 

 rations ? It is but too true that the sins of the fathers are 

 visited upon their children. We may here take warning 

 from the fate of the Red Indians of America. An intelli- 

 gent American physician gives the following explanation 

 of the gradual extinction of this remarkable people. One 

 generation of them became addicted to the use of the 

 fire-water. They have a degenerate and comparatively 

 imbecile progeny, who indulge in the same vicious habit 

 with their parents. Their progeny is still more degene- 

 rate ; and, after a very few generations, the races cease alto- 

 gether. We may also take warning from the history of 

 another nation, who, some few centuries ago, while following 

 the banners of Solyman the Magnificent, were the ter- 

 ror of Christendom, but who since then, having become 

 more addicted to tobacco -smoking than any of the Euro- 

 pean nations, are now the lazy and lethargic Turks, held 

 in contempt by all civilized communities." 



The " Dubhn University Magazine," on the Tobacco 



