The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-02-15
CO NJ M U MIC A T ZION.
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OF the 18th ult, has afforded your reader
no small qualification on account OF his at
tack ~ et armis' uron that most Sun
natural, and disgusting" practice the us'
of tobacco Now Mr. Editor as [ ar
very unfortunately one of those "mos
healthy and robust youths who indulge
in this nefarious O practice"-" l wish,'
as Judge Spencer says ito define my po
stion"
Because man can abstain from the use
of any particular article it is no concu-
sve evidence that he ought so to do.
DR.. Alcolt has shown by actual exper.
fence in his own person that man can ex.
isl 10 a state OF health without the use oil
liquids of any kind whatever. DR.. Ora
ham has persuaded many to abstain from
the use of all kinds of meats, rich GRAVES
pastries, cakes &c.
A short time since an entire ships crew
being out OF other provisions subsisled and
grew Aeshy solely upon sugar l men.
ton these things to show the taIlacy OF
one, at least, O. e. WIS" conclusions,
lie. because tobacco can be dispensed with
therefore we ough, SO to do.
at is lamentabIe fact says "E w."
that many OF our young men impair their
health and shorten their lives by the use
of Tobacco"
challenge &c. W." or any other man
10 produce person who has ever been
injured by the use of tobacco, any farther
than by the loss of saliva consequent up
on the very e1cessire use. do not in
cude under the term "use of tobacco"
snuftaking, that is the abuse. Never
theless [ contend that the evils conse-
quent upon snuf'takiag; are the same as
would be caused by the entrance of any
foreign substance of the same form into
the nose and not from any inherent prop.
erty of the weed. Hear the testimony
of the Editor oflhe London Lancet
In the meantime the facts that we al
ready possess warrant us in concluding
that tobacco, used in moderation, IS not In
furious TO the health and that the diseases
which many writers ascribe to its use are
altogether imaginary as ofsprings OF the
weed"
AS 10 the character Of this testimony it
may gathered from the fact that the
" London Lancet' is beyond compare
son the frs. medical periodical in the
world. | have at command host oftes-
timonies equally as strong as the one Civ
en-, but | will not trouble you with them
at present. In future shall perhaps
have occasion for the use of some ofthem
"E. W." derives a singular argument
from the fact that worm and the human
being are the only creatures that keep
company {" in this mos! filthy practce.'
Friend "E. W." did you ever see
four footed animal. worn, or any crea
lure except man, cook their victuals over
the fire 2 How remarkable it is that
man should be alone in thisl And how
very remarkable it is that he has only one
companion in the other practice !
In regard to abstaining from the use of
tobacco from religious scruples, think it
would be a precedent hard TO be adopted.
How very scanliIy should we live, were
we TO abstain from every thing except
those which are barely necessary? The
fact OF it is there are no arbitrary lines TO
which to come, but every individual must
follow the dictates of his own conscience.
In my next ] shall be happy to meet
any argument which may be advanced by
"E. w." or any other person opposed to
SMOKE JR.
Whiting, Jan. 1914.
We append to the above, short chap.
ter from Dr.. Alcolls most excellent work
THE Young Mans Friend 1.-THE use
Of this article is injurious, and we believe
most Medical writers fully agree upon
this point. 1t is an evil of no ordinary
magnitude, and should receive the atten-
ton of all lovers Of reform and human
welfare.
| SMOK KING.
"Smoking has every where, in Europe
and America, become a tremendous evil