Il6 APPENDIX. 



II. 



TOBACCO VS. RELIGION. 



Mr. Samuel Smiles estimates that the sum expended every 

 twelve months in the United Kingdom on cigars and tobacco 

 exceeds eleven millions of pomids sterling. This sum is more 

 than ten times as much as all the Missionary and Bible socie- 

 ties raise in the same period. 



III. 

 testimonies of physicians, scientists, and others. 



Dr. Boerhaave, of Germany, says that since the use of 

 tobacco has been so general in Europe, the number of hypo- 

 chondriacal and consumptive complaints has increased by its 

 use. 



Liebig, the celebrated German chemist, says that ** smok- 

 ing cigars is prejudicial to health, as much gaseous carbon is 

 injuriously inhaled, that robs the system of its oxygen." 



Dr. Rush, of Philadelphia, says of tobacco, " It impairs 

 appetite, produces dyspepsia, tremors, vertigo, headache, and 

 epilepsy. It injures the voice, destroys the teeth, and imparts 

 to the complexion a disagreeable dusky brown." 



Dr. Darwin, of England, says of tobacco, that "it produces 

 diseases of the salivary glands and the pancreas, and injures 

 the power of digestion by occasioning the person to spit off 

 the sahva, which he ought to swallow." 



Dr. Franklin said that he never used tobacco, and that he 

 never met with a man who did use it, that advised him to 

 follow his example. 



John Ouincy Adams, former President of the United States, 

 after using tobacco in early life, and giving up the habit, re- 

 marked: " I have often wished that every individual of the 



