xvL] ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF SMOKING. 
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from a Japanese work, which enumerates the advantages and 
disadvantages that are connected with tobacco-smoking :— 
“ A .— Advantages. 
‘'1. It dispels the vapours and increases the energies. 
‘‘2. It is good to produce at the beginning of a feast. 
“ 3. It is a companion in solitude. 
'A. It affords an excuse for resting now and then from 
work, as if in order to take breath. 
“5. It is a storehouse of reflection, and gives time for the 
fumes of wrath to disperse. 
“ ^.—Disad vantages. 
“I. There is a natural tendency to hit people over the head 
with one’s pipe in a fit of anger.^ 
“ 2. The pipe comes sometimes to be used for arranging the 
burning charcoal in the brazier. 
“ 3. An inveterate smoker has been known to walk about 
among the dishes with his pipe in his mouth. 
'A. People knock the ashes out of their pipes while still 
alight and forget to extinguish the fire. 
“ 5. Hence clothing and mats are frequently scorched by 
burning tobacco ash. 
“ 6. Smokers spit indiscriminately in braziers, foot-warmers, 
and kitchen fires. 
7. Also in the crevices between the floor-mats. 
“ 8. They rap the pipe violently on the edge of the brazier. 
“ 9. They forget to have the ash-pot emptied till it is full 
to overflowing. 
''10. They use the ash-pot as nose-paper (i.e. they blow their 
nose into the ash-pot).” 
As during our stay at Enoshima as the governor’s guests we were 
constantly attended by two officials from his court, I considered 
it my duty to show myself worthy of the honour by a liberal 
distribution of drink-money. This is not given to the attendants, 
^ The Japanese pipes are now so small that no serious results from this 
disadvantage are to he dreaded. In former times the pipes used were long 
and probably heavy. The Dyaks of Borneo still use pipes so heavy that 
they may be used as weapons. 
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