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efurine Juices, which help to dilute, com- 
mix, and digeft the Food, and excite a Senfe 
of Hunger y hence I have known fome who 
have fmoaked till they could eat none at all. 
Smoaking may alfo prevent or alleviate Cold, 
Drowfinels, Dullnefs, and Lownefs of Spi- 
rits, as the Smoak warms, and the Heat and 
Salts titulate and corrugate the Fibres and 
Nerves. The penetrating, flimulating Na- 
ture of Tobacco-Smoak, is too fenfibly per- 
ceived by delicate Perfons, fitting in a clofe, 
low Room without a Fire, among a Crowd 
of Smoakers ; the Smoak makes them firft 
fick, then faint, then puts them into fome 
Tremors, and fometimes obliged to retire 
and unload their Stomachs. Tobacco being 
a great Narcotic, daily Smoaking muft be 
highly injurious to the Brain and the whole 
nervous Syilem ; and this Mifchief is not a 
little increafed by its abounding with acrid 
Salts. Several abfolute Princes, have, on 
Pain of Death, prohibited its Importation 
into their Dominions ; whilft limited Go- 
vernments permit and encourage it for the 
Sake of the great Duty it brings into their 
Revenues. Simon Pauli's Treatife on To- 
bacco, deferves to be attentively read ; herein 
he difcuffes that Queftion, whether Smoak- 
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