Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-03-20
TIE USE OF TOBACCO

Is a dangerous inducem nj 10 Mtemperance.
"Tobacco belongs to the class of narcotic
stimulants. AS a medicine, it is occasionally
employed by the profession. As a provoca-
tive to drinking it has been condemned by
the wisest Of inrn. Sylvester, in allusion 10
this well known property of tobacco, playful
ly but ingeniously, derives its name from
Bacclus.
Which of their weapons hath conquest,
got,
Over their wits; the Pipe or else the pot
For even the deviation OF the name
Seems TO allude to, and include tine SINE
Tobacco, as To BACHcHo-one would say
To cup god Bacchus dedicated ave.
"Raphacl Thorius appears to have b.en Of
4 similar opinion, for he attributes the discoy-
cry of this noXiouS herb to Bucchus iSiienus,
and the SatyrS, the representatives of drunk-
enness, gfuftOny and lust. DR.. Adam Clarke,
In his admirable treatise on tobacco, remark
ed that so inseparable an attendan, is drink
ing on smoking, that in some places the same
word expresses both thus peened, in the Ben
galee language, signifies to drink and to
smoke. " IT IS with pain Of cart, adds
the same distinguished writer, that | am OBJ
lIged to say, | have known several, who,
through their lmmodcrate attachment to tho
pipe, have become mere sots. There are 9TH
es who are walking unconcernedly in the
same dangerous road. | trembIe for them
The late governor Sullivan of America, in
speaking of the use of tobacco, remarks that
the tobacco-pipe excites a demand for an ex-
traordinary quantity Of some beverage to sun
ply the waste of glandular secretion in pro-
portion 10 the expense of saliva and ardent
spirits are the common substitutes and tho
smoker is often reduced to a state of dram
drinking, and finishes his life as a sot.' DIR.
hush observes that smoking and chewing
tobacco, by render ng water and other simple
liquors lnSlpid to the taste, disposes ve:y
much to the stronger stimulus Of ardent spir-
Its, hence, (reInarks that writer, the PRACTICE
OF smoking cigars has been followed by the
use OF brandy and water as a common drink
Or. Agnew also asserts, that the use of the
pipe leads to the use oil ardent %spirfts.' A
writer in The Genius of T'emperancs, > am
American publication, states thai the practice
OF smoking and chewing tobacco, produced
. continual thirst for stimulating drinks and
this tcrmenting thirst (says he,) led me into
habit OF drinking ale, porter, brandy, and
other kinds of spirit, even to the extent, at
lines, partlaliofintoxication. The writer adds:
reformed and after I had subdued This ap-
petite for tobacco, I lost my desire for strong
.
The amount of intemperance arising from
this cause, if followed TO its actual issues,
would be truly startling. One writer on the
is of opinion, that it would amount to
not less than One-teBth of the ~drunkards an
lually made through this nation. The prac-
ice, however, is beyond all doubt a fruitful
of intemperance, and as such, ought to
le disuSed by every one who -raoar,j1 a.
Welfare and happiness of either himself or
lis fellow creatures. "-Enghs4 Paper.
> Dissertation on the use and abuse Of 70.
'acco, by DR.. Adam Clarke, p. "a, ed. 1887.