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first and second and third cigar? Why, grand 

 man though he is, — a man, too, of great strength 

 of character, — he becomes an inveterate smoker. 

 And though, with his fine constitution, the ill 

 effects on his health may not at once be obvious, 

 yet, like many another tobacco user, he may be 

 suddenly stricken down with apoplexy or heart 

 disease, when the doctors, perhaps, will pro- 

 nounce judgment that he died from the effects 

 of smoking. 



Then who can tell what injury this loving father 

 may not have entailed on his children by the sure, 

 retributive law of heredity ? And what if his boys 

 aspire to a cigar? Shall their smoking father for- 

 bid them, holding himself up in terrorem? 



A minister of rare qualities of head and heart, 

 but of delicate organization and highly nervous 

 temperament, who had unfortunately learned to 

 smoke, consults his trusted physician. What a 

 grand opportunity for helping the man to knock off 

 his fetters ! Does he seize the occasion? Why, 

 instead, he tells him that moderate smoking, "just 

 a little," will not only not injure, but will help 

 him — will quiet his excited nerves ! So the min- 

 ister's wife, who knows he is the very last man 

 who ought to smoke, and who sees that it is only 

 confirming his unfavorable symptoms, is obliged, 

 as she sees the fetters tiofhteninfi:, to hide her 

 anxiety and her sorrow in her own heart. 



Xow, how can we account for such a course on 

 the part of the accredited guardians of health? 



