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tradicted by the fact that there are individuals 

 who, in spite of the inhalation of tobacco smoke, 

 live to be old, and without any material derange- 

 ment of the health ; analogous exceptions to the 

 general rule being met with in the case of those 

 who have indulged freely in the use of liquors. 

 Nicotine occasions death by destroying the func- 

 tions of the brain." 



Dr. Curvengen cited the case of a gentleman to 

 whom he was obliged to administer strong coffee 

 to arouse him from the nervous depression occa- 

 sioned by long smoking. 



Dr. Laycock, Medical Professor in Edinburgh 

 University : " I have not known any good from 

 tobacco that might not have been obtained from 

 less objectionable means." 



Abernethy, the great English surgeon : " To- 

 bacco stupifies the moral sense." 



A gentleman, it is said, once asked Abernethy 

 if he thought the moderate use of snuff would 

 injure the brain. "Xo, sir," was Abernethy's 

 prompt reply, "for no man with a single ounce 

 of brains would think of taking snuff." 



Horace Mann : w Tobacco should not only be 

 denounced, but the student who uses it should be 

 expelled on the ground that the practice is unfit 

 for a scholar and a gentleman." 



"The Christian:" "The smoker more than any 

 one else is a selfish man. Xo matter how poor 



