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hot lemonade, will make the battle with the habit 

 comparatively easy. During the day, whenever 

 the craving becomes intense, two or three swallows 

 of strong, cold lemonade will allay it. If the man 

 be going from home, let him carry a supply with 

 him for the time of need. The acid of lemons is 

 one of the best antidotes for this and many other 

 poisons." 



Medical men who have had large experience in 

 this matter, declare that instant emancipation is 

 entirely safe. Says Dr. Kirkbride : " I have never 

 seen the slightest injury result from the immediate 

 and total breaking oft* the habit of using tobacco, 

 and the experience of this hospital is a large one 

 in this particular." 



Another physician writes : " The struggle of 

 the sufferer may be terrible — he may even feel 

 like death. But there is no danger of dying ; 

 such a result has never yet happened. Though 

 the pain and misery are intense, their duration is 

 short, and, when once over the bridge that spans 

 the great chasm of reaction, the smoker or chewer 

 can raise his voice and shout : — f I am purged of 

 the vile weed; I am free; I am clean; and as 

 long as I live , I will continue to be so.' " 



But the world is not yet without men who have 

 had " backbone " enough to conquer the habit by 

 sheer will. The head of the eminent house which 

 has electrotyped this work was thirty-five years 

 ago a chewer of tobacco. He left that oft* at the 

 advice of John Quincy Adams, but still smoked. 



