182 TOBACCO. 



moral and intellectual transformation as well as 

 physical degeneracy." 



The professors in the University and High School 

 at Ann Arbor, Michigan, who have had a long 

 experience among thousands of young men, regard 

 this weed as having a worse effect than even liquor, 

 affirming that more young men break down in body 

 and mind, and finally go astray as a result of smok- 

 ing, than of drinking, while the former often leads to 

 the latter. 



Prof. Moses Stuart, of Andover, who at one time 

 was himself a user of the weed, writes: "That 

 it undermines the health of thousands ; that it 

 creates a nervous irritability, and thus operates on 

 the temper and moral character of men : that it 

 often creates a thirst for spirituous liquors : that it 

 allures to clubs and grog-shops and taverns ; and 

 finally, that it is a very serious and needless expense, 

 are things that cannot be denied." 



Prof. Mead, of Oberlin : w The tobacco habit 

 tends to deaden the sense of honor, as well as of 

 decency ; and none are more likely to practise de- 

 ception unscrupulously than those who use the 

 weed." 



In the same spirit, President Bascom, of the Wis- 

 consin State University, affirms that "every man 

 who uses tobacco is in one degree or another 

 enslaved by it. The habit is vulgar and low in all 

 its associations. It uniformly degenerates into 

 that which can only be fittingly characterized as 

 filthy. No one who uses tobacco can fully escape 



