TOBACCO. fi* 



air, and sickoncfl tli(> maiden so that slio thought slio would tall 

 to tho door. As she was anxious to jilcase the old gentleman, 

 she i)laye(l a few minutes longer, wl.en, finding herself ahout to 

 faint, she rose and, holding on to tln! furniture to keej) her 

 from falling, reaehed the door. That day she could eat nothing, 

 and for several days the thought of T.))>aeco at ineal-tinie took 

 away all appetite for food, and made her feel faint and siek. A 

 lady from the country started foi I Boston to do some shoi*- 

 })ing. On tho cars a gentleman occupied half the seat with her. 

 Tart of his tinu- was spent in the smoking car and the rest with 

 the ladv. When she arrived in JJoston she was sick, and had 

 to call a physician, who informed her that she had been made 

 ill l)y Toh.icco. She paid her doctor's 1)111 and went home 

 without doing her shopping. Other ladies say they cannot go 

 to Jjoston to do husiness on account of the Tohacco-smoke in 

 the streets. In fact many ladies a\oid ceitain streets in some 

 of the towns of our Maiitime Provinces on account of the ever- 

 ])resent fumes of Tobacco. Jt pollutes the very earth and 

 atmosphere of America. The jiajx^rs recently reported two 

 cases of serious burning — of a young lady and a child, whose 

 clothes had been set on fire l)y cigar stubs thrown upon the 

 sidewalk, adding that the aggravation of tlio case was only 

 increased l>y retlecting that it could not have been tho smokers 

 themselves who were burned. 



Tile New York Witness says that all use of Tobacco under 

 tho age of twenty-one shoidd b(; prohibitc^d, and that especially 

 should til's prohil)ition be enfovced in cas> of all %vho att(Mul 

 schools or colleges sustained in wdiole or ])art at public exix'use. 



Joseph Cook, in (»ne of his '" interludes," remarked : " I 

 ha\e no patience with the low white's mouth di.sease, which is 

 tlu! name I give to the haliit of eliewing and expeetoi ;ii ing 

 Tobacco. I must say that if I liail a dog that had the hal»it of 

 chewing and exi»ectorating Toli.icco, or even smoking If, here, 

 there, and everywhere, 1 should shoot him." 



