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bairn, Cardinal Newman, Keshub Chunder Sen, 

 and M. Barthelemy St. Hilaire. 



Of Gladstone it is affirmed that he "detests 

 smoking." 



Darwin : " I have taken snuff all my life, and 

 regret that I ever acquired the habit." 



Ernst Haeckel : " I have never smoked." 



Philip Gilbert Hamerton : " I shall certainly 

 never resume smoking. I never use any stimu- 

 lants whatever when writing, and believe the use 

 of them to be most pernicious ; indeed, I have 

 seen terrible results from them. When a writer 

 feels dull, the best stimulant is fresh air." 



W. D. Howells : "I never use tobacco, except 

 in a very rare, self-defensive cigarette, where a 

 great many other people are smoking." 



R John Ruskin entirely abhors the practice of 

 smoking, his dislike of it being mainly based on 

 the belief that a cigar or pipe will often make a 

 man content to be idle for any length of time." 



Charles Reade : " I tried to smoke ^.\e or six 

 times, but it always made me heavy and rather 

 sick ; therefore, as it costs money, I spurned it. 

 I have seen many people the worse for it. I never 

 saw anybody perceptibly the better for it." 



The case of the distinguished French savant, 

 the Abbe* Moigno, editor of the Journal du Monde, 

 is very striking. Temperate in his general habits, 

 he became conscious of injury from his excessive 

 use of snuff, many times giving it up only to 

 resume it again. He was a noted linguist, know- 



