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of them are not aware of it, but it is certainly true. 

 It is a gross, vulgar habit, without the excuse that 

 drinkers have. Liquors can be made good to 

 every beginner, but the tobacco slave acquires 

 the habit only after a desperate struggle with loath- 

 ing and disgust, more or less prolonged." 



Dr. William B. Hidden, Baltimore, August, 

 !*!>:? : "The heart is the engine of the human 

 body. The arteries are the hose. To increase the 

 power of the engine and not strengthen the hose 

 correspondingly means disaster. Tobacco lessens 

 the frequency of the heart's action and increases 

 its force, so that any excitement or a hearty meal 

 is liable at any moment to burst the arteries of the 

 brain where they are least protected ; hence the 

 tobacco devotee is liable to sudden death." 



Dr. Anderson of the McAll Mission, member 

 of the Royal College of Surgeons, England : "All 

 the cases of cancer of the mouth that I have come 

 across, and they are pretty numerous, have been 

 started by the pipe, cigar, or cigarette ; and almost 

 all the male neuralgic patients that I have seen in 

 the London and Paris hospitals, as well as a third 

 of the cases of heart disease that have come under 

 my notice, were smokers. As you are aware, at 

 the McAll Dispensary, I have the opportunity of 

 seeing over a hundred and fifty fresh patients each 

 week." 



Dr. Charles E. Drysdale, senior physician to the 

 Metropolitan Hospital, London, May, 1892 : "The 



