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on this question until the King of Battles gives him 

 an honorable discharge." 



w I can point you," says a physician, "to two fami- 

 lies right under my eye, where in each case there 

 is a nest of little children rendered idiots by the 

 tobacco habits of their parents." 



A doctor found among the patients at an infir- 

 mary a young man suffering from tobacco symp- 

 toms. " What will you say to this case ? " inquired 

 a medical friend ; " the youth has never chewed, 

 smoked, or taken snuff." "His father did it for 

 him," replied the doctor. Turning to the father 

 the question was asked, " How long have you 

 smoked?" " These-five-and twenty years." "Have 

 you ever smoked an ounce of tobacco a day ? " 

 "Yes, many times." 



Dr. Richardson : " If a community of youths of 

 both sexes, whose progenitors were finely formed 

 and powerful, were to be trained to the early prac- 

 tice of smoking, and if marriage were to be con- 

 fined to the smokers, an apparently new, and a 

 physically inferior, race of men and women would 

 be bred." 



Dr. Cowan : " Of all the harm done by the use 

 of tobacco, the greater harm and the mightiest 

 wrong is that of transmitting, to the unborn, the 

 appetite for the filthy, disease-creating, misery- 

 engendering drug." 



A business man who was an excessive smoker, 

 but whose work was mostly in the open air, had 

 no consciousness of injurious effects. Of his two 



