Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-07-02

in no good, criminal ! Is it not a national
evill And is not that which is national first
individual land consequently that which is
sinful for a whole nation, sinful for a single
individual of that nation
Allowing moderate smoker to spend about
% minutes out Of 25 hours in smoking, and
five minutes in procuring and lighting his
segars, which is certainly a moderate calcu-
lation, he would thus spend 81 hours every
7 days, or more than 2 weeks and a half of
his waking hours every year. And if a man
were TO III smoking at 20 years Of
age and continue till he was so, he would
have one year and 8 months of waking life in
the single occupation of smoking segars.-
Allowing that he used three segars per day,
(and what really smoky gentleman does not
use more y and that each segar was / in
ches long-which by actual measurement is
rather less than the average lenglh-he would
smoke | foot of tobacco per day, or 3G5 feet
in a year. And if he should continue smok-
inr from 30 to so years of age, he would
have consumed 1880 feet or . miles 1870
Yards of tobacco. Let then, a smoker make
a simple Gale %ulation Of the amount of time
and tobacco smoked away by himself and IL
Of his friends, whom perhaps his example has
greatly influenced, and he will find that at
the ratio allowed, in the course Of 30 years
these IL men would have spent II years of
waking life, in smoking; and have evapo-
rated about 25 miles of segars. How many
hands have been engaged in cultivating and
preparing this article for their use, that might
nave been better employed! How much
good might have been accomplished in II
years!
All will admit that this calculation is low,
and yet a year and 5 months Wasted-if no.
thing worse than wasted-from the age of
20 to so, is certainly no unimportant con-
sideration. Let the lover of his country re-
fleet how much he might have done for the
public benefit during this time; let the lover
of science consider how much material he
might have added to his own knowledge;
and let the Christian remember that he is
commanded by an apostle, writing under the
high and holy inspiration of the cross, 10
% redeem his time" At a low estimate, we
suppose that a regular chewer will use 2
inches of light plug in a day, and this in 20
years would amount to 1,2l6 feet. Think of
1900 feet of tobacco before you to be eaten
in 20 years! The quantity used by the
chewer, though much less than that con-
sumed by the smoker, is certainly very great
and this difference is more than counterbal-
anced by the greater strength of the poison
he uses, and the greater flthinesS involved
in its use.
1t has been estimated that the people Of the
L. S. expend at least Twenty-Five millions of
dollars annually in the single article of to-
bacco. This sum, so far from conducting TO
the advantage Of our country, is expended to
purchase national filth, poverty and disease.
If properly applied, it mightdoa vast amount
of good. 1t would be sufficient for the re-
spectacle support of so thousand families, or
$50 thousand persons for a whole year. 1t
would pay more than 60 thousand teachers,
or it would support 10000 missionaries, or
erect 10000 school houses, (almost half as
many as there are III the u. s. or it would
print 10000, 900 bibles. This sum at 6 per
cent. would amount to 81 100000 of interest
in a single year. We suppose that the use
of this article will increase in proportion to
the increase of population, and we believe al
so that the estimate is too low, but to avoid
all eXlggeratlon, we will reckon the money
spent per year in the U. S. at S25, 900, 900,
and it is plain that in forty years, this nation
will have spent 81 ,000, 100000 on tobacco,
exclusive Of the interest on this vast sum-
We ask you if you desire to swell this nigh
ty aggregate, and contribute by your exam
pie and influence, to bring disease and wretch
edness and death on myriads of your fellow
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our acquaintance say, that they eXpend from
ten to twelve, and even twenty dollars a year
on tobacco, but making a moderate estimate,
we will say that the user of this article spends
six dollars per year. This in 20 years, would
amount to $l20, and calculating the interest
at & per cent. the whole would be $2Gl.-
This is quite a handsome sum-to say the
least, for no g00d purpose. 1t would have
purchased valuable library of $50 volumes /;
it would have supplied 2ll2 persons with tos-
taments, or it would have sent SO children to a
common school each a year. Can it be mo
rally right to waste time and money, when
thousands of the enslaved, and millions of
the poor and perishing are calling loudly for
aid, and when God himself has said, that
whose stopPeth his ears at the cry Of the
poor, he also shall cry himself but shall not
be heard" Can it be morally right-even
admitting that you do not iniuro yourself
to encourage by y0ur example those who use
tobacco in such excess that they are evident
ly bringing on themselves disease and pre-
mature death
If you, yourselves, are not slaves to this
vice, can you not afford TO make a small sac
rifce to encourage others to make a great
onel Will you join in the benevolent opera
tions of the Temperance Society, TO encour.
age the drunkard to join in them too, and
will you not openly and practically discoun-
tenance the use of this article-if not for YOU
own sake-for the sake of those about you
And now, gentlemen, we have laid before
you very briefly, some of the principal argu-
ments for and against the use of tobacco, and
we trust they will be received in the same
spirit of kindness and friendship in which
they ale offered. We are aware that it is
sometimes said that females commit so many
errors themselves, that it i'll becomes them tC
offer advice to the other sex. We own thai
our sex is guilty of as many f%ollies but thi;
fact cannot invalidate a single argument thai
we have offered. If what we have spoken
be true, it is certainly a weak-minded mar
who will excuse a want of attention to wha'
he feels is truth, because we have sometime:
been in error. But we know that the gen,