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"I am glad to learn that you are soon to pub- 

 lish a work on Tobacco. Having made, for many 

 years a specialty of the study of the laws of health 

 and disease, I consider this one of the greatest 

 evils of the present day. Language cannot de- 

 scribe the terrible effects which tobacco produces 

 upon both body and mind. It perverts the taste, 

 impairs mental capacity, corrupts the moral sense, 

 and stimulates the animal nature. 



M But its pernicious effects are not confined to 

 the present generation, nor to this life. Its dread- 

 ful evils, through the laws of inheritance, extend 

 to offspring, even to the second, third, and fourth 

 generation. 



"In view of such facts, that smoking should 

 increase, especially among young men, is alarm- 

 ing, yes, shocking ! I pray that your book may 

 prove a powerful auxiliary in this much-needed 

 reform." 



From Pres. Edward Hitchcock, D.D., L.L.D., 

 for many years the honored president of Amherst 

 College : 



" I believe that tobacco is a cursed evil to our 

 boys and young men, seriously damaging them 

 morally and physically. It is a bewitching evil. 

 It has a soothing and quieting effect on the nerve 

 centres, and hence to the user seems to do no 



