204 TOBACCO. 



A prominent physician, who himself both smokes 

 and chews, is honest enough to admit that " tobacco 

 is too deadly a poison to be used even as a medi- 

 cine ; " and declares that he " would give five 

 hundred dollars to he free from the habit." Yet 

 he chews and smokes on. 



A Christian professor, in her dying agonies, 

 repeatedly entreated her friends, " Give me snuff, 

 give me snuff." They were her last words. 



Earnestly implored to give up the filthy weed, a 

 clergyman made answer, ff Not I ! I will smoke 

 if it shortens my life seven years. I will live 

 while I do live." 



A lip-cancer, which had been occasioned through 

 smoking, was removed by a physician. " Twenty- 

 four hours after the operation," says the doctor, "I 

 found the patient propped up in bed, with his 

 face bound up on one side and a pipe on the other 

 side of his mouth." 



George Trask writes: "I have known men to 

 dream and rage about tobacco like madmen when 

 deprived of it. I know an excellent clergyman, 

 who assured me that he had sometimes wept like a 

 child when putting a quid into his mouth, under a 

 sense of his degradation and bondage. I know 

 a man who confessed that tobacco Avas the dearest 

 thing on earth, dearer than wife, child, church, or 

 state." 



Pitiable thraldom ! Bound hand and foot ! 



It takes the very manhood out of one. Dr. 

 Henderson relates the case of a member of Con- 



