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the telling of stories of sometimes doubtful import, 

 and brings one into contact with gamblers and 

 toughs." 



Another reply to the same question comes from 

 Port Huron : "Yes, I must admit that the use of 

 tobacco tends to make men more social ; while on 

 the Pacific coast, I saw that kind of social life in 

 car-load lots ; in fact, it was to be obtained by the 

 train-load. The bulk of this kind of sociability 

 consists of gambling, profane and obscene language, 

 bawdy yarns, sensuous nonsense, and ill-timed re- 

 partee." 



And another from Chicago : N Of course smok- 

 ing encourages sociability ; so does gambling and 

 drinking. A company of men smoking in a room 

 are very sociable, and there is generally, besides 

 politics, an almost invariable flow of profanity and 

 obscenity, and an excellent chance for smutty 

 stories, and when once started, the earth is raked 

 for material, each trying to excel the other." 



TOBACCO AXD CRIME. 



From "The Criminal," by Havelock Ellis, p. 

 120: "It is worthy of note that criminals begin 

 to use tobacco at an early age. Thus, among a 

 population which normally begin to smoke before 

 the age of thirty in the proportion of 14 per 

 cent, (and the insane 7.2 per cent.) , 22 per cent, of 

 criminals smoke before the age of thirty, and 



