Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-09-18

To preach to a smoker about the hurt
fulness OF using tobacco, is like trying
to dip water with sieve but / have al
ways noticed that, when all other argu-
ments have failed, there is one which
will tell on the most obdurate. Begin
to talk money, and if the hearers purse
is likely to be affected, You will see his
mouth open and his eyes begin to
sparkle with excitement, and for this
reason / will show the cost of smoking
for five years, from which the cost for a
life time may be easily reckoned. We
will say young man begins to smoke
when he Is sixteen, and on an average
smokes two cigars per day (Which is a
very low estimate), and continues until
he is twenty-one. Now let us reckon
the cost. For the first year he smokes
two per day, at cost of ten cents each,
making for the year a sum of $73. Now
If instead of spending this money he
had put it at interest at the end of the
first year, during the next year at six
per cent. it would have gained 1913,
which, together with the $73 which he
would smoke up, would give him, at the
end of the second year, S150.3S, which
again put at interest, together with the
S73 for this year, would amount to the
neat little sum of 1892 40 at the end of
the third year. Again getting the
amount and adding S73 for another
year, the whole amount is swelled to
S319.34, which he puts at interest at the
beginning OF the fifth year. By reckon
ing up his bank account Mt the expira-
ton of the five years he is astonished to
find that his cigars have cost him the
round sum of S411. 50-and this is not
all. Smoking as well as chewing creates
thirst which must be satiated For a
time water may do, but the smoker will
soon find that the terrible craving for
drink cannot be satisfied with water,
and therefore to "set himself to rights, 4"
he must have a glass or two of cider,
and perhaps something stronger No
less than two glasses for each cigar will
answer, for which he will pay five cents
each, making another twenty cents per
day which he will drink, which at the
end of the five years will amount to an
other 3411. making in all 1892
nice little capital for young man just
starting out in life.
suppose that all can say about the
filthiness and other inconvenience of
this habit will be words thrown away,
but after considering this subject, 1 feel
as though could not lay down the pen
without saying few more words to
those who have fallen victims to it.
Having occasion to go down to the
village store on a stormy day, as / en-
tered, my nose, mouth, throat and lungs
were filed with a cloud of tobacco
smoke. The shock which it gave me
was so great that 1 came near being
sick, and could not relish my food for
several days afterward, while the sick
ening scent of rank tobacco chung about
my clothes for long time. Now if, be-
sides losing their time, these men could
be made to understand what beasts they
were making of themselves, and how
they were clouding their brains and
arkening their intellects with every
puff thee took, while every particle of
air which they inhaled was mingled with
the poisonous fumes of poor tobacco,
and every cent of money they paid out
for the weed was just so much paid out
to insure a shortening of the number of
their days, they would throw aside the
pipe and hasten home and there set
themselves about their business
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