CONTENTS. 



Introduction 1 



FINANCIAL VIEW. 



Quantity and Cost — Cost from Fires — Laws limitingUse — Culture- 

 Other Tobacco-Costs— Yorktown Bill— Tobacco Census .... 4 



PHYSICAL AND INTELLECTUAL VIEW. 



Nicotine-Poisoning — Experiments — Facts — Considered Medically — 

 Effects on Children and Young Men— Lowering Scholarship — 

 Hard Breaking in —Cigarettes — Tobacco and Drinking — Man- 

 ufacture of Chewing Tobacco— Cigar-Making — Properties and 

 Effects of Tobacco — Experiences of Literary Men — Medical 

 Inconsistencies — The late Dr. Willard Parker's Views — Tobacco 

 Illustrations — Tobacco Diseases — Tobacco Amaurosis — Color- 

 Blindness — Delirium Tremens — Heart Disease — Smoker's Can- 

 cer — Impaired Muscular Force — Shattered Nerves — Insanity. 

 Tobacco Heredity — Surgeon-General's Report 23 



TOBACCO BENEFITS. 



Destroying Vermin — Excluding Ladies — Mellowing Theology — In- 

 ducing Self- Abasement — Subduing Bad Smells — Protecting 

 against Malaria and Typhoid — Aiding Digestion — Quieting the 

 Nerves — An Antiseptic — Preserving the Teeth — Helpful Stim- 

 ulant—Checking Waste of Tissue — Benefiting Adults — Pro- 

 moting Sociability 



SOCIAL AND AESTHETIC VIEW. 



Old-Time View of Tobacco —List of Brands —What Protection Against 

 Smokers— Twenty Minutes in a Smoking-Car— Present Outlook- 

 Civil Rights vs. Tobacco — Tobacco Pictures — Tobacco Manu- 

 facture — Cigarette-Making —Wives of Tobacco-users — Female 

 Devotees — Demands of Modern Travel — Tobacco Barbarism — 



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