The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1854-03-02

Oh IoDacco cneWinS WniIe tnose VINO
smoked we're condemned to have their
noses cut off. In 1890, Pope Innocent
XII. renewed the bull of Pope Urban /;
but in 1924, Benedict XIV, having
become snuf-takcr himself, repealed
the edict. In Constantinople, about the
same time, 1890, every Turk caught in
the indecent act of smoking was con-
Quoted in ridicule through the streets,
seated on an ass, his face directed to-
ward the animals tail, and pipe trans
fixed through his nose"
1t is astonishing what an almost uni
vcrsal prevalence the habit of using
tobacco has obtained in the comparative
ly short time since it became known to
the civilized world. Notwithstanding
more than hundred volumes have been
written to put down the detestable habit
of using Tobacco as a luxury, it has
been, for nearly four hundred years,
constantly extending the area of its most
abominable and relentless slavery, and
is at this moment making more rapid
and more fatal progress, especially
amongst the rising generation of tins
country, than at any former period of
the worlds history. BY Transforming
the natural appetences, it has triumphed
over authorities, books, reason, argu-
ment, ridicule, denunciation, imposts,
statutes and punishments, and is, next
to alcoholic beverages, the bcsetting vice
of Christendom.
In some countries, men, women,
and even children are addicted to smok-
ing. In Campcachy, we are told, it is
common for children two and three
years of age to smoke cigars. kotzebue
tells US that in the Sandwich Islands
children often smoke before they can
walk f; and that adults frequently fall
down senseless from excessive indul-
gsnce in this habit. In India all classes
and both sexes smoke. In Hindostan,
boys of fourteen and fifteen use To-
bacco excessively. In the Burman
Empire, both males and females smoke
necessarily; even nursing infants have
the lighted pipe put into their mouths
occasionally by their smoking mothers.
In China, young girls wear, as an indis-
pensable appendage to their daily dress
a silkcn pocket to carry a pipe and To
bacco. In South America, both sexes
use Tobacco. In Lima, women arc
daily seen putting cigars in the streets
and in Paraguay the fairer sex befou
their mouths every day by chewing.
But these places arc inhabited by
barLarous tribes or emi-civilizcd ma
tions. How is it with enlightened anc
Christian peoples The Germans smok'
! a large portion of their time The
French and Spanish smoke to great ex
cess. The English consume immense
quantities of Tobacco, and take the leaC
: in snuffng. Aud, lastly, in the United
D States more Tobacco is raised and con
;, sumed in proportion to the population
e than in any other country. Most Of tn
h foreign population of this country ar
IS inveterate smokers /; and large an
It increasing proportion of the natives
:. particularly great boys and small youn
y men, are addicted to the general folly
); Nearly all the eating-houses, oy'
q ter saloons, and refrectories of our cite
y and of country places, are filled wit
Tobacco smoke a considerable part
|, the time. Smoking in the streets
ts New York is SO general, that it is in
IS possible to traverse any Of the thorough
D fares of the city at any time betwec
< sunrise and midnight, without taking Il
c, stencil of burning tobacco into the lun
n, at every inspiration. The same is tr'
,c of a majority of our cities and large vi
st ages, Steamers, sailboats, ferryboa'
&c railroad-cars, stages, coaches and onr
buses, are almost everywhere hcavi
n charged with rank tobacco smoke al
b. all the depots where passengers C
On change seats or sojourn for few mi