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a gentleman, and everything but the smell of a 

 gentleman, will do in your house, in your parlor, 

 in the very presence of ladies, things which, if not 

 under the spell of tobacco, no money would have 

 tempted him to do." 



No spot is too sacred for the encroachment of 

 the tobacco-tyrant. The neat ingrained carpet of 

 }'our guest-chamber and the elegant tapestry of 

 your drawing-room alike bear his defiling marks ; 

 and with all your painstaking you can never efface 

 them. 



Writes Horace Greeley : " I have intimated that 

 the tobacco-consumer is not, indeed, necessarily 

 and inevitably, but naturally and usually, a black- 

 guard ; that chewing or smoking obviously tends 

 to blackguardism. Can any one doubt it? . . Go 

 into a public gathering where a speaker of delicate 

 lungs and an invincible repugnance to tobacco is 

 trying to discuss some important topic so that a 

 thousand men can hear and understand him, yet 

 whereinto ten or twenty smokers have introduced 

 themselves, — a long-nine projecting horizontally 

 from beneath the nose of each, a fire at one end 

 and a fool at the other, — and mark how the puff, 

 puffing gradually transforms the atmosphere (none 

 too pure at the best) into that of some foul and 

 pestilential cavern, choking the utterance of the 

 speaker and distracting the attention of the hear- 

 ers, until the argument is arrested or its effect 

 utterly destroyed. If he who will selfishly, 

 recklessly, impudently, inflict so much discomfort 



