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sick ; it impairs the health which it does not de- 

 troy ; its use in any form is uncleanly ; it demands 

 of its devotees a constant expenditure of money ; 

 its culture occupies rich arable lands which other- 

 wise would yield wholesome fruits for man and 

 beast. I have been grieved by the extent to which 

 the vile habit of smoking and chewing prevails 

 among the clergy." 



W. H. Wakeham, field secretary of the Inter- 

 national Health and Temperance Association : " I 

 believe tobacco is doing more harm physically and 

 morally than alcohol." 



" New York Medical Journal," November, 1888 : 

 "When Europeans first visited New Zealand, they 

 found in the native Maoris the most finely devel- 

 oped and powerful men of any of the tribes inhab- 

 iting the islands of the Pacific. Since the intro- 

 duction of tobacco, for which the Maoris developed 

 a passionate liking, they have from this cause 

 alone, it is said, become decimated in numbers, 

 and at the same time reduced in stature and in 

 physical well being, so as to be an almost inferior 

 type of men." 



Sir Benjamin Brodie : "If a generation should 

 arise when both men and women should take to 

 using tobacco, the deterioration of the next genera- 

 tion would be insured." 



Again he says : " I cannot entertain a doubt that 

 the value of life in inveterate smokers is consider- 

 ably below the average. Nor is this opinion con- 



