This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...drunkards, so the patrons of tobacco are disgusted with its victims. The journal of that trade--" Cope's Tobacco Plant"--says: "Few things could be more pernicious to boys, growing youths, and persons of unformed constitution, than the use of tobacco in any of its forms." Sir Benjamin Brodie, after detailing in "The ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...drunkards, so the patrons of tobacco are disgusted with its victims. The journal of that trade--" Cope's Tobacco Plant"--says: "Few things could be more pernicious to boys, growing youths, and persons of unformed constitution, than the use of tobacco in any of its forms." Sir Benjamin Brodie, after detailing in "The Lancet" some of the ill effects of tobacco, adds: "Boys get the habit of smoking, because they think it manly and fashionable to do so, --not unfrequently because they have the example set them by their tutors, and partly because there is no friendly voice to warn them, as to the special ill consequences to which it may give rise, when the process of growth is not yet completed." Teachers, who would prepare the young to be manly men, must warn them, both by precept and example, against this enfeebling and enslaving practice. In this matter parents should themselves be teachers. In the choice of companions for their sons, and in the selection of a school, they should not only consider social and intellectual advantages, but whether those habits are countenanced which may be very injurious to their physical and moral well-being. But if from carelessness or despair, or from a dislike to attack habits to which valued friends may be addicted, we make no protest, and become like the smokers, " soothed into lazy peace," what may happen? Women are now asserting their claims to do what men do. We are told that, owing to the facilities afforded by some grocers and confectioners, they drink much more than they did. Do we wish them to smoke? Those who are living in an atmosphere narcotized by their male relatives will not find it difficult. In the North you often see poor women with a pipe. If it is so very s...
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