THE TOBACCO NUISANCE, 



Lv A LErrER to John Smith, Esq. 

 hy 



REV. DR. WILSON, 



Ex-Pirsiilenf of the New Dnntxirlek iind /'. E. Idand Con/eirnrc «/ the 



Mctlioilint Church. 



To John Smith, Esq. : 



Mv Dkar Fill end: As for all we do or try to do wo are 

 supposixl to bo able to render a roa-suii, 1 take it for "granted 

 that you have, or at least believe you have, one or more good 

 reasons for using Tobacco. To think otherwise would not 1)0 

 complimentary to your intelligence, would be to regard you as 

 an irresponsible being and to degrade you to the level of the 

 brute. Endowed, as you are, with conscience; and common 

 sense, 1 cherish the belief that you are open to conviction, are 

 anxious to know the truth, will calmly consider all that can be 

 said against the practice, and be willing to give up at once and 

 forever the use of the weed, if the arguments adduced are such 

 tjiat will commend themselves to your judgment; and having 

 given the subject much serious consideration, and having 

 reached the conclusion that the practice is an evil one, and 

 leads to other and still graver ones, I am not without hope 

 that you will see the matter in the same light and be, as I am, 

 a total abstainer, not only from the dreadful firewater, but also 

 from the use of tobacco in all its forms. 



Now, instead of giving me your reasons for using Tobacco, 

 l)erhaps the same may be as readily reached by giving you 

 mine for not doing so. As my object is to convince your judg- 

 ment, I will deal in facts, and will regard style and phraseology 

 as of minor importance. I do not expect you to accept all I 

 say without question ; indeed I do not wish you to, but I do 



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