New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-12
Tobacco,
sBY An EMAscIPATED DONKEY.
To ne Editor Of The Tritune :


and the subsequent communication of "a Donkey
and while content to leave the matter in YOU
hands, / cannot resist the inclination TO "tell my
experience" hope l shall not be looked upon as
an interneddler for an. w. D." (which probably
means "Most Worthy Donkey,') denies YOU
right to treat of a subject of which you experiment
tally kaeT nothing and possibly the testimony Of
an EmGncipated Donkey, who exultingy tri
umPhs over his freedom from the disgusting habit
in duplicate, of nearly tpeaty years standing,
smoking and chewingl may be not altogether dis
regarded by some Of my former classmates, and
NJ. w. DIS present associates.
Your facetous correspondent, NJ. w. D. takes
it for granted that H. G. knows nothing about To-
| bacco, because be never achieved the combustion
of single cigar THIS writer thinks that thirty
years endurance Of the neUseating and disgusting
contact with chewers and smokers in the streets,
in public conveyances, in hotels, on steamboats,
at public meetings and around church doors, at al
most all times aud places, has been en- expe
rience on the part Of H. o. wide enough to satisfy
the largest demands Of pure taste and tempe
rate selfdenial Il certainly is an experience
near enough to Identification TO entitle you to
free pass in toe estimation of the writer OF this
communication-to whom. even while most devoted
10 the foul narcotic, the interminable Of spit
icons in the otherwise delightful saloons of our
steamboats, in the finest parors Of our finest no.
tells, and indeed everywhere, has a revolving and
disgusting picture.
NJ. w. d. submits that while H. G. is substan
italy correct as to street, omnib1g and assembly
smoking he cannot see how L follows that be
should abstain from " tie weed al py0pcr Times
and places and IN Tc1sonqGle quantities" agree
with NJ. ". d. bat rpcciiying, particularly that
am fully persuaded, from a twenty years expe-
nerce against his sic months, that there is no
time piece or gUonti'g ekheT reasonable or proper.
As the human stomach is not 4 proper place for
Alcohol and its derivatives, the human mouth is
not the place fer Tobacco whether in the luxurious
roll Of NJ. w. DIS Esculapio or Principe, or the
more uncouth and grossly urclean plug. know
Ct no place proper to be deliberately used as an
occasion Of moral or physical debascment even in
a slight degree, though the proper place for
smoker or che1er is as near ST. or barn door
rs he can be placed. The proper "time" for such
habits, and the indulgence Of such unnatural and
in some sense immoral arpet;tes, is when n man
has lost bis moral responsibility has not one incen
tive for time or eternity, TO REDEEM THE TINE"
and has 70 obligation resting upon him 10 "qut
you LIKE MEN!'-not in p base surrender of the
soul, mind and body to the satisfying Of degraded
and forcibly created appetites but in a beautiful,
lovely, holy, onward Development of those powers
which are ours 10 use, ours 10 expand ours 70 en-
noble, ours to answer for, and GODS 10 require
" To hOTScs cattle and h0gs y0u man SCI run
int 10 real men yOV mist not on ttec si0Tcs' was
the imperative end wisely authoritative reply of
KUskini Governor Of Oahu. Hawaii, 20 the foreign
traders who in 1850 dched the laws and the reform
measures Of the Sandwich Islands Government
And 10 The IOb0ccO-r0yDl well would It be Tor orr
Naiion could our laws, either OF legislative en7 :.
ment or OF Individual Judgment, c5nsign the weed.
AS 10 smoking chewing, su1lluE, Or tho use o.
Tobacco in any form, contributing 20 cam snd
quiet passions, and leading m0n 70 contemplate
irritating circumstances with cslnncss AID rea-
son, the declaration, elaborate under Tue influence
OF a strongly favored Esculapio shows i1st how
wCGk arc tie reasoning and the reasoning poy
o. Al. W. D. under tie Inspiration Oi biz q gar. Tor
strength, the cigar has the best Cl il In this case
Now ! do not one moment hesitate to say that
the use Of Tobacco contributes new and large ee-
ment to the chances and the GAUGES of irritation.
anger or excitement, and that, Ike hguor i blinds
by its delusive the moral sense, while it de-
grades the appetites Of those who use it, ard rem
ders them, under the deprivation Of their accus-
toned indulgence at the usual times, far more ex.
plosiye and nervous than before.
This business Of smoking is only an excuse 70 /
"kW Eme.' Millions 0f money j0r an inch of /
time" said dying sovereign, bat it was too late
and ifthe tobacco consumer could be prevailed upon
TO see Just how much Of his brief life is wasted in |
smoke believe many would abandon it. VIII !
NJ. w. d. before he shall have thrown away money
which is time, and time which il money in long
accumulation till it shall reach hundreds perhaps
thousands, Of dollars-WILL N. w. D. QUIT To-
BAcCOl
One inexperienced or bat recently enlisted in
the service OF the weed. cannot really know how
dirty, incOnv enient troublesome wastef and seri-
Gus habit the use Of Tobacco really is Revolt
ing at first, with nature violently protesting against
the outrage, the "Poas asR0ruR' is passed. and
the chains begin TO wind around the novice until In
short time they have become so strongly riveted
as almost 10 defy the effort to cast them off, am
hold 70 say that NJ w. d. does not know how in.
sensibly he has been giving disgusting and filthy
habit the mastery over him so that he is Stare
even now 70 bis appetite. A free man voluntarily
putting on such foul chains
am one Of that numerous class who "iudre
others by themselves" sRd fancy It IS not very
aiter all. Taking NJ w D. 70 be
something like g man with passions, feelings.
powers, &c. like other meA-like myself am led
10 declare positively
J. That the use of Tobacco is dirty, loathsone
and offensive to cleanliness and purity fife.
:. That 1t is inconvenielt, as it must either be
ndalged unseasonably o!tentimcs or the appetite
ana the hebit VIII be very great annoyance, and
deprive the sufferer often Of enjoyment Of higher
nature wren in circumstances where the habit can.
not be INDUCED
3. Ii is very tToubissoroe. snd o0e, l..d,.o.
noes errors Of conduct.
$: IL Is samulant which excites the animalen
peutes' oeranses the healthfll action Of the var;
ons organs, Injuries digestion, exhausts the vital
pEncipie' makes unnatural demands upon the avs.
'ein' and weskens the moral sense by its use.
.. II IS allied to Alcohol and Opium bv a natural
'onssngulnity, and produces effects like them only
..ouiled IN degree. II appeals 10 the same sppe.
NC WORKS on the same field, lebors to the same
End and is alike deleterious and mischievous
T. In any form the use OF Tobacco consumes q
'reat deal O. time, which might be more properly
employed.
l. 1t renders the user weak, irritable. i--ssolute
he frequency Of his Indulgence.
:. Tobscoo used, particularly smoked late in the
'venirg hts q staPig ing effect. The saliva be.
cInes yIiated with the poisonous ft,,a v,b;cL "a