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26 TOBACCO AND ITS HISTOliy 



suusliiuu, the laiu which (Jod gives you, and set them at work 

 to crow tobacco — tobacco that nourislics no man, cUothes no 

 man, instructs no man, pnrilit.'S no man, blesses no man ; tobacco 

 that begets inonlinato and loathsome appetite and disease and 

 de^^radation, that impoverishes and debases thousands and adds 

 incalcuhtbly to the burden of evil the woild l)ears ; but call not 

 this honest trade, or this gnawing at the root of social well- 

 beinir, ixettini!; an honest li\elihood. Think of CJod's justice, tlie 

 lionesty he retpiires, and cover not your sin with a lie. Turn 

 not His earth and air, given to minister to the sustenance and 

 joy of man, into a narcotic, deadening life and jwisoning its 

 current, and then tratlic with this for your own good," 



Tobacco-culture is well known to be d(!structi\e, not o)dy to 

 the soil, but its dreadful work is ai>})arent in the factories wIkm-c 

 it is prepared for merchandise. The average life; of oixiratives 

 is computed at four years. Dr. Rostral, physician to tlu! royal 

 tobacco factory in Moravia, reports that, of 100 boys entering 

 the works there, 72 fell sick during the Hist six months, while 

 deaths fr(Mpiently occur from the nicotine poisoning, by iidialing 



the dust." 



The lati! \h: Willard Parker of New York, after thorough 

 investigation, reports : "Tobacco is ruinous in our schools and 

 colleges, dimirfuKj hudji mid mind of the pupils." 



T/iG Christian Stcdesnvin, a few days ago, records an extract 

 from Science, concerning the results of smoking by boys, which 

 says: "In an experimental observation of 38 ))oys of a,ll classes 

 of society, and of average health, wlio had been using tobacco 

 for periods ranging from two months to two years, 27 showed 

 severe injury to the constitution and insuthciemt growth; 32 

 showed the existence of irregularity of the lieart's action, dis- 

 ordered stomach, cough, and a ci-aving for alcohol; 13 had 

 interniittency of the pulse, and one had consumption. After 

 they had abandoned the use of tobacco, within six months 

 time one-half wer(,' free from all their former symptoms, and 

 the remainder had recovered Viy the end of the year." 



