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majority of medical men here are anti-tobacco ; 

 but there is, I regret to say, a minority who set a 

 very bad example in this respect. For I have 

 always maintained that as it is particularly dis- 

 graceful for clergymen to be untruthful, so it is a 

 disgrace to any practitioner of the healing art to 

 make daily use of what is injurious to health, and 

 thereby invite others to do the same. My opin- 

 ion, based on a prolonged study of diseases of my 

 own sex, is that one of the most common causes of 

 deteriorated health is to be found in the practices 

 of smoking, chewing or snuffing. Among the dis- 

 eases resulting from the tobacco habit are cancer 

 of the lip and tongue and even of the larynx, weak- 

 ness of sight, sometimes ending in blindness, func- 

 tional diseases of the heart and nervous affections. 

 Mr. Goschen, our Chancellor of the Exchequer, 

 has just informed us that the consumption of to- 

 bacco per head in the United Kingdom is double 

 what it was fifty years ago. Some of our ladies 

 indulge in cigarettes, and at a new ladies' club, 

 recently formed, there will probably be a room set 

 apart for smokers as there is in gentlemen's clubs. 

 This smoking habit is one of the greatest hygienic 

 delinquencies of modern civilization." 



Dr. Benjamin Ward Richardson, London, a 

 physician of the highest authority, July, 1892 : 

 " My views expressed many years ago respecting 

 the action of tobacco on the human body have been 

 confirmed in every way by later and continued 



