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anytliin,i,' sliort of alcoholic drinks. Tn this way is laid the 

 fouiidiition of dnnikcnncss." 



\)y. (Juini, in his Amrrioan Mcdirino, says: " \ regard i\w 

 use of (his narcotic in !-,niul:inL,', chewing, and snntling as dan- 

 L'orouH and L'roatlv dostrnctivc to tlu^ constitution, and ohvi- 

 ouslv injurious in its (^Ifccls on Itody ;ind nund. Is it not a 

 fact that coiisunicrs transmit to their o(rsi)ring a perverted 

 appetite, which heeomes more and more intense? Are not the 

 j.hvsical sins (4" the })arents visited ujion thti ehihiren? Are 

 not maiiv of the ills and much of the disease liv which we are 

 :il!li(te(l lh(' ivsidt of nsing 'rohiieci) ? 'rolcieeo is well known 

 to he a vegetable poison. A few drops of the essential oil will 

 kill a strong man. The smoking and chewing of it, hy reii(l<'r- 

 ing water insipid (o the t^ste, disposes very much to the stronger 

 stimnliis of ardent sjyirits. My candid opinion is, that the ns(! 

 of Tohacco is the greatest ohsiacle existing co the progress of 

 tenijierance, and never will this cause triumph, ncNcr will 

 ah'oholic drinks cease to he used as a hcNcrage until Tohacco 

 ccMSes to he used as a luxury." 



Dr. Pidduck, in the London Lancet, in 1850, says: " Tn no 

 instance is the sin of the father more strikingly visited upon 

 the children, than in tlu> sin of Tohacco-smoking ; the enerva- 

 tion, the hyiH)choiuli'iasis, the liysteria, tin; insanity, the sufler- 

 ing lives and early deaths of the children of inveterate snu)kers;, 

 hear ami»le testimony to the feebleness and unsoundn(>ss of the 

 constitution ti'ansmitted hy this pernicious liahit." 



Dr. Willai'd I'ai'ker, of New York city, says: "It is now 

 many veais sini-e my attention v>as called to the insidious hut 

 positivclv destru'-tive etlects of Tohacco on the human .^<ystem, 

 r have seen a great deal of its intluence upon those who use it 

 and work in it. Cigar ami snulf manufacturers come under 

 my cai'c in hospitals and in ])ri\ate practice, and such persons 

 can never recover soon, and in a healthy manner, from cases of 

 injury and fever. They ar(^ more a])t to dit; in epidemics, and 

 more prone to apoi)lexy and paralysis. The same is true of 

 tliose wdio chew or smoke." 



