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examiner of various English life insurance offices : 

 " The profession have no idea of the ignorance of 

 the public regarding the nature of tobacco. Even 

 intelligent, well-educated men stare in astonishment 

 when you tell them that it is one of the most 

 powerful poisons. Now, is this right? Has the 

 medical profession done its duty ? Ought we not, 

 as a body, to have told the public that, of all our 

 poisons, it is the most insidious, uncertain, and, 

 in full doses, the most deadly? 



M What a blessing it would have been to man- 

 kind if all men had shrunk from this plague of the 

 brain as did the first Napoleon ! One inhalation 

 was enough. In disgust, he exclaimed, r Oh, the 

 swine ! my stomach turns.' 



,f In the course of my practice I have met with 

 many who, like myself, have abandoned smoking. 

 I have never found one who does not assert most 

 positively that he has been in better health since, 

 and that his intellectual activity has increased. I 

 may be mistaken, but I believe that our greatest 

 men, statesmen, law} r ers, warriors, physicians, 

 and surgeons, have either not been smokers, or, if 

 sn>okers, that they have died prematurely." 



EFFECTS ON CHILDREN AND YOUNG MEN ; LOWER- 

 ING SCHOLARSHIP. 



Dr. Willard Parker : " Tobacco is ruinous in 

 our schools and colleges, dwarfing body and 

 mind." 



Dr. Ferguson : " I believe that no one who 



