68 TOBACCO. 



An autlioi-ity states that for every $8,000 expended for 

 bread in New York city $10,000 are spent for Tobacco, whicli 

 all scientists assert contains no nutritive qualities and passes 

 into the blood nnchanored. This vile weed costs the people of 

 America more than is spent for the purposes of education. 

 Men.'ly tlie cigars consumed in tlie United States cost more 

 than all the connnon schools and more, some assert, than all 

 the breadstulfs. Adding to this i\w labor of nearly two 

 nnllions of men employed in its culture and prei)aration for 

 use, also the immense quantities of fertile land used for its cul- 

 ti\ation, one can comi)rehend in some degree the cost of this 

 most useless habit. Says tlie K y. Times of 1 871 : " The great 

 griin-growing interests may be thought to Mgurc to poor pui-- 

 pose in the list of foreign ex[ orts whcni it is known that \\v. 

 smoke up in Spanish cigars the whole export of wheat, and 

 drink down in Frencli cognac the entire exi)oit of Indian corn." 



The \ilo weed is one of tlie chief incentives to the vice, 

 misery, and wretchedness that afflict our land, and is not only 

 a co-partner with intoxicants, but the root of intemperance. A 

 groat man once remaiked that Tobacco was the devil's pillar of 

 cloud by day and of tire by night, that was leading thousands 

 of young men and boys away from the Promised Land in- 

 stead of into it. The youth of America are cursed by no one 

 thing as much as ])y cigarettes. All over the land childi'Pii are 

 seen with these miniatun; cigars in their mouths. So many 

 little fellows think it is one of the most glorious testimoni(>s 

 and prerogatives of manlio<Hl, and that they are very mueh 

 advanc(>d towai-ds that exalted condition if they can but smoke 

 like father. They find it a nauseous and dillicnlt task at first, 

 and are obliged to stnoke secretly ; but there is a spice of 

 j-onianee about it to their minds which fires the enuilation, and 

 tliey resolve to master tlu; dilliculty. The deleterious (lualities 

 of the (bug may be perceived from the liist attenqtts to sanoke 

 being followed by giddiness, nausea, and de])ression. The great 

 increase; of smoking among lu.ys is one of the most alarming 



