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the taint. His breath is impregnated with it ; his 

 clothes are full of it ; his presence is a constant 

 reminder of it to delicate organs. The use of 

 tobacco is an unclean habit and belongs to unclean 

 persons. There are few spectacles giving a more 

 disgraceful impression of our civilization than that 

 of a mere lad sporting a pipe or a cigar in self- 

 congratulatory imitation of the bad habits of those 

 older in years than himself, but alike immature in 

 wisdom." 



A physician who has well considered the matter, 

 writes : " I believe that the habit of using tobacco 

 in various forms is not only laying the foundation 

 for many diseases of serious character, and not 

 easily removed, but that it is damaging the moral 

 fibre of many of our students." 



The superintendent of the Reform School at 

 Westboro, Mass., reports that all the boys sent 

 there have been users of tobacco ; and that it is the 

 one thing that occasions him the most trouble, and 

 that he is working hardest to extirpate." 



Chancellor Sims, of the Syracuse University : 

 " The tobacco-habit is expensive, offensive to 

 others, and deteriorating to the one indulging in 

 it." 



Dr. Harris : " There is not another practice in 

 civilized society that will so directly introduce a 

 young man to vicious associates and to all the 

 haunts of wickedness, as do the unrebuked, fashion- 

 able habits of tobacco-using ; nor is there another 

 article of luxury that so secretly and yet so surely 



