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by the narcotic, had lost all recuperative power. 

 He lay for a fortnight, a most pitiable object, and 

 then sank — as all his doctors agreed — a victim of 

 tobacco. 



In speaking of Senator Carpenter,, the brilliant 

 friend of General Grant, Eev. Mr. Marsh, who 

 has written vigorously on the tobacco habit, re- 

 marks : " He died, his system a pitiful wreck, 

 when, as far as years went, he ought to have been 

 in the prime of his power. An acquaintance 

 writes of him, 'Died of smoking twenty cigars a 

 day.' " 



Lorenzo and Siro Delmonico, the famous New 

 York caterers, were anions the innumerable to- 

 bacco victims. Of the latter, Dr. Wood, who had 

 attended him for a long time, testified, "I have 

 known him to smoke as many as a hundred cigars 

 a day. He was completely saturated with nico- 

 tine, and the question of his death was only one of 

 time. He used the very strongest cigars, made 

 expressly for him in Havana, and he was perpet- 

 ually smoking. The disease this produced was 

 called emphysema, — a morbid enlargement of the 

 lung cells, and caused fits of coughing which 

 sometimes nearly strangled him. He had been 

 many years under medical treatment, frequently 

 changing his physician, but never his practice, 

 although often warned of its perils." From a 

 midnight revel Delmonico went to his house, and 

 the next morning was found dead upon the floor. 



A prominent and highly esteemed citizen of Sy- 



