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ing the smoke, and then, throwing his head up, 

 with mouth agape and eyes upturned, showing 

 the blood-shot whites, will grunt a sigh of ecstasy 

 that would make the fortune of a low comedian in 

 a love scene. This is the plain, unvarnished fact, 

 easy of corroboration. AVhat have the Anti- 

 Tobacco League to say about it?" 



I think they would say that the gradual deterio- 

 ration of camels is of far less consequence than 

 that of mankind, and would therefore propose that 

 all the tobacco the world produces should be sent 

 for their use, that by their vicarious endurance of 

 its penalties man might be spared. 



ANOTHER ESTHETIC FACT. 



In our large cities much of the cut tobacco is 

 manufactured in mills erected for the purpose. 

 A good part of the material is gathered from the 

 sweepings of bar-rooms, streets, and sewers," con- 

 sisting mainly of cigar stumps and old cuds of 

 tobacco which have been chewed and cast away. 

 Conceive the loathsome diseases thus generated ! 



REPLY TO MATTHEW ARNOLD. 



Matthew Arnold's remark about wine-drinking, 

 that it ff adds to the agreeableness of life, and 

 therefore to its resources and powers," has by 

 some been applied to tobacco. 



It has been the object of this book to show that 

 so far as others besides the user are concerned, 

 tobacco adds to the cZzsa^reeableness of life, and in 



