The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-02-06
Tobacco Sets.


public, indianapolis, says -
Some days since I had occasion
to meet, on business, q young gen
tleman of the city, and noticing-as
l had often before noticed-that he
was an inveterate smoker, l be
thought me that perhaps I might
get some information from him with
regard to this abominable practice.
"a very fragrant cigar that you
are smoking,' said I.
Replied he, looking lovingly at
the smoking weed-''Y es, a very
good article; one of Holdings ten
centers, or three for quarter. Try
one p extending his cigar-case.
"No, thank you; 1 never smoke" !"
II wish | could say as muclr," Ca
stereotyped wish of majority of
tobacco slaves.
"How many cigars day do you
smoke on an average p
He thought the question over for
minute, and replied, From seven
to eight
"And they cost you eight and a
third cents on an average ?"
Eyes, they will fully average
that
"Do you think they do you any
good p
"W eIl-no, I don't know that
they do but then it is a source of
great pleasure to sit down and
smoke a good cigar. It prevents
one from getting the blues, or feel
ing lonely, and is q great promoter
of sociability and fellowship"
''Did you ever calculate how much
your cigars cost. you during the
year ?"
81 don't think I ever did,
'W ell let us reckon the cost
Seven cigars day at eight and one
third cents piece, cost four dol
lars and eight and one third cents
per week, or two hundred and twelve
dollars and thirty three and one
third cents per year.
"1'hat does seem like a pretty
large sum to waste on one small
uice - said he laughingly.
"SmGU vice! I hope you haven t
any larger ones ?" replied I.
ooh, no! only this matter of
smoking never seemed SO costly an
affair before One bleeds in such
small quantities, that he does not
notice it.
Suppose the government were
to tax you fifty cents per day, you
wouldn't bleed so freely and easily I;
but the tax levied would be paid
with many growls. You are kept
weak by such continual bleeding.
Think of it. You sometimes wear
your old clothes for months, be-
cause you feel too poor to buy new
ones you are too poor to join the
Young Mems Library Association
you cannot afford to take the lead
ing literary periodicals; and you
are often obliged to turn away So
licitors for objects of charity because
you have not the funds to spare
Yet yearly you puff away money
enough to clothe you; to make you
a member of the Library Associa-
ton; to furnish you with reading
matter, and yet leave something fol
charitable purposes. You use to
bacco, which you say you dom
think does you any good, but which
you know does you harm, to thi
tletriment Of your purse, your health
and your morals, besides rendering
your presence offensive to sensitive
olfactories. You cannot give one
good reason for its nse-you know
a dozen against it. Now suppose
you just quit p
Il couldn't do that; I've tried
/ stopped smoking once for three
months, but I couldn't stand it, ant
had to begin again
This is the same old story that
have heard from dozens of young
men before. They are completely
denoralized; have become regula
tobacco sots.
How can q man use tobacco an(
yet be pure? [ care not how scru
pulously neat in his personal habit
a tobacco user is, he cannot be per
fectly pure and clean, nor can h
hide the disagreeable smell whici
its use entails upon him. God set
the marks Of His disapprobation OF
every vice, and he who indulges i,
any one of the whole round, mus
accept the unpleasant results which
are its natural and inevitable conse
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