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suddenly sprang upon the community, there would 

 be a spontaneous uprising, an indignant mass- 

 meeting, which should demand its immediate ex- 

 pulsion? Xo pipe or cigar ought to be smoked 

 within a thousand yards of a church or place of 

 public gathering. Cannot the early New England 

 statute be revived, at least so far as to impose a 

 fine on any person using the weed publicly? 



In point here is the opinion of Dr. John H. 

 Griscom, president of the Xew York Society 

 for the Advancement of Science and Art, and for 

 twenty-three years attending physician of the Xew 

 York Hospital: f 'If every human being should 

 understand and appreciate the value of pure air 

 when inhaled, and the injurious influence of any 

 foreign substance when absorbed into the blood 

 through the lungs, the writer hereof cannot doubt 

 that tobacco-smoking would be totally discarded 

 voluntarily and, perhaps, legally." 



Joseph Cook says : ff I believe that the natural 

 instinct of man concerning tobacco, if he has not 

 inherited a taste for it, is repulsive. When I was 

 in Harvard University, Dr. Shattuck, of the Medi- 

 cal School, gave a lecture on Health to the fresh- 

 man class ; and he told its members that he, as a 

 physician, could not deny that tobacco was a sed- 

 ative ; but that if they must take it, he would 

 advise them to put it in a bowl on the mantel- 

 piece, and take it as a decoction ; for then it 

 would have all its sedative effect, and not injure 

 anyone else besides the taker of it. That was the 



