264 TOBACCO. 



and treat the thousands of visitors now here at the 

 Exposition or soon to come, it must abolish, at 

 least for the period of the great World's Fair, an 

 abuse which has grown unbearable here during the 

 past few years — the smoking cars. In the name 

 of visiting thousands, in the name of health, of 

 common politeness and common decency, we ask 

 for a suspension of smoking in the street cars of 

 this city, at least during the Exposition, and we 

 confidently ask the support of the ladies and gen- 

 tlemen of New Orleans in this much-needed 

 reform." 



FROM DR. W. WALLACE XIMS, OF SYRACUSE. 



" To say nothing of the scent of tobacco, so 

 offensive to many, the habit of using it de- 

 praves the appetite, impairs the digestion, and 

 tends to produce emaciation. Tobacco is a pow- 

 erful sedative and acts directly on the nerves, 

 prostrating the nervous system and laying the 

 foundation for a long train of difficulties. And 

 through the nerves it affects the heart and the cir- 

 culation. 



"For these and other reasons I consider the 

 tobacco-habit one of the very worst, next, indeed, 

 to the drinking-habit, to which it often leads." 



SMOKING IX HIGH PLACES. 



An Episcopal clergyman, who suffered from ill- 

 health, was induced by the urgent advice of his 

 physician to give up smoking. Happening some 



