The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-12-25
BROOKHAVEN, MISS. TUESDAY

| the average time. Some people suffer
! less and some more, and some persons
cannot learn t" nse tobacco; they are
always sick if they touch 1t. /"
"Yes, that corresponds with what
I've often heard But now, suppose
We fully made up my mind to learn to
smoke so as to have my share of the
| pleasure, the comfort coming from
lit. / have great powers Of endnrance;
| sit down to my task, as in dentist y
chair to have all my toeth pulled out.
dou't finch, bnt endure heroically the
torture of tho dreadful nausea, aud
then tho violent vomiting. and the
era 1,.ing headache My lips are Ilvid.
my face has the pallor, the anguish OF
! most painful death agony. You ara
standing by encouraging ms AMI doing
your best to keep my courage up.
DON'T be afraid, yoa say. you'll not
die. I've bean through it allan more.
For all this suffering and anguish
you'll be rewarded many fold in the
pleasure and comfort of smoking.
Wouldn't you say all thatto encourage
me?' es@
There was pause. He didnss an
swere at first Then he said: "Ive
never thought of it in that way. l do
not think 1 should encourage you, or
even stand by the bedside of any one
learning to use tobacco and encourage
him to preserve. Laughing heartily.
II never thought of the ridiculous.
absurd figure man makes in learning
to use tobacco. Iu fact. men never ac-
quire tha habit, or vArv rarely, and
then under exceptional circu instances.
It's boys who learn. because they think
it smart and manly to use tobacco.
They steal away into secret places; they
hide b4hind the barn or creap under
the WOOD shed. ont of sight, because
they're asham ID. and there they smoke
and vomit That's the way in which
ninety-nino of every hundred tobacc1
Users havs acquired the habit
But. to come blck to myself. l d.
not nauseate now, or. bnt very little.
I've conquered that. but l have no de>
sire Whatever for cigar. | can smoke
one without being sick. but wonld not
tonch one bnt for the example of others.
Ism t that exactly what would happen?"
YES. that was precisely my case. :"
''But l persist in smoking; and by
and by it becomes a necessity because
| if / omit thu customary oig,r | should
suffer. After year or two of the to =
bacco habit I shoull sulf,r vary much
If l could rot have my cigar Is moi
that precisely where I should be,
whe,e you are now?"
Yes, that is exactly the case; that's
fair statement of it,
"lhen. in short, I have suffered all
this dreadful pain in learning to use
tobacco. only to tasted upon myself a
most expressive and offensive habit.
which l must crafty under penalty OF
| imexprrssble suffering; which | caanot
| throw off excapt at the cost of torture
almost uneudurable. / continue the
! tobacco habit only to avoid the intense
suff rirg which wonld otherwise tor.
ment me. The pleasure. the Comfort
coming from the tobacco habit liz this,
only this. and nothing more; it wards
off pain.
II have naver heard the matter put
in that way before. hut I must confess
that that il the Whole of it. II / can,
not have nv cigar [ snif.r; while | Am
smoking tina pain is re'iaval. is goae,
and in fact that is al the pleasure that
cpmss from smoke"
Upon tho whole. then, | do not
think | shall learn to nae tobacco: to
acnuir, habit which is very costly:
which makns ona offensive TO manv
people, habit which humans a man
so far that h. f~-ls him elf unlar 81
bondage which he c1nnot throw of,
vithnrt an rtf>rt that few man who ara
suhi ct to it fild them selves eC',ai to. y