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smoking and meant to smoke himself when big 

 enough." 



Boys sometimes break themselves into this vice 

 by rolling up tea or ground coffee in papers, and 

 smoking them as cigarettes. 



Neal Dow graphically describes the early pro- 

 cesses : " At the very first the use of tobacco is 

 a dreadful disgust. It is even worse than this. 

 It inflicts upon its future victim a nausea, a retch- 

 ing, a vomiting, a headache, to which the horrors 

 of seasickness are not to be compared. There 

 ib the blue upper lip, the livid, ghastly hue of the 

 face, the eye like that of a dead fish, the limbs 

 limp and powerless, a violent and painful vomiting, 

 every symptom of death, which it would soon be 

 in reality if the unutterable horror of the suffering 

 did not compel the poor fool to postpone the at- 

 tempt to become a man in that way. Here endeth 

 the first lesson. The silly youth resolves always 

 that he will never touch tobacco again, and holds 

 to his purpose until he has entirely recovered 

 from the effects of the first lesson. Then he sees 

 other youngsters like himself who have succeeded 

 in conquering their disgust at tobacco. They have 

 done it. AVhy not he? They laugh at him as 

 white-livered ; they assure him that the worst of it 

 will be over in a few days, or, at most, in a few 

 weeks. They strut through the streets or in 

 other public places so grandly ; they have such a 

 manly way with them ; there is such a grace in 

 their style of holding the cigar between finger and 



