The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1852-01-01
Tobacco, Intempcrancc,T Tempe
rINcc.-.NO. 6.

rincc.--NO. 6.
To the Editors of the Literary Echo -
A short time since | saw report in one
of the Journals of the day, which l pur-
pose to present to your readers, as saw
it, without vouching for its perfect accura-
cy. 1t is as follows =" In the town OF
Milford, Mass, there are eighty tons o.
plug tot acco used in year ~ Is it so
Can it be so' If this, Or anything APP
proximating to this, is in accordance with
facts, should like to have the following
questions answered for the benefit of the
community at large: lst. How many of
the inhabitants Of that town, use alcoholic
liquors as beverage? ID. How many
Incorporate persons, and loafers, are there
there /? Sd. How many of the inhabitants
of that town are suffering from dyspepsia,
nervous arrangement, and kindred all
ments Correct answers to these inter-
rogations, 1 have no doubt, would shed
light upon the question of the dclcteiious,
and dangerous effects of tobacco upon the
system and also upon that of the con-
ncctiOn between the use of tobacco and
tippling and in!oxication.
1t is computed that 10000 persons,
every year, in America, 60 into the grave
from the use of tobacco. What a congre-
CATION! and what giant evil that which
lays low in the dust, annually SO many
and h w many hopes are also laid low in
the gravc-and how many hearts rendered
desolate--and how many homes filled with
weeping and lamentation ! And why all
ihis' Why because it is popular to smoke
and chew that which destroys life and be-
cause it is regarded by the young as some
thing manly to do so Is not fashion a cruel
so tyrant? Let it become Questionable
unpopular to use tobacco, and cavendish,
ard pig-tail, and plug-and every other
kind would 90 by the board; and every
man, and every aoould -be-man that now dis
graces himself by sticking the end Of a
long-ninc, Or short-nine, into this mouth,
and sucking it as he passes along the street
Or sits in the shop, would almost as soon
be seen sucking the literal pigtail which
the butcher sewers from the young porker,
when he prepares him for the barrel. Not
all, who smoke or chews, do it merely be-
cause it is fashionable; many do it be-
cause they have contracted the habit of
doing it. Many a one wculd be CAD to have
nothing to do with the filthy weed, but
there is the habit which they have formed,
so fixed, so deep-seated, they have not
strength of purpose sufficient to abandon
it, and they are hel in bondage. But all
those who are now forming the habit of
smoking or chewing, are doing this be-
cause iii popular to smoke and chew, and
as they think, has a spice Of manlnsss in
it. They do not love the taste of tobacco
they do not feel any better for using it,
not as we'll, sometimes decidedly aoorse +;
but what if it does make them sick a little,
there is something manly about it, and-by-
and-by they shall have their reward o
how manly that young buck looks in that
buggy with whip and long-nine, as he
drives Jchu-like through the street, ever
and anon waiting loving glances into the
face of the lady by his side, upon the
smoke Of his cigar, and poisoned breath