The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-01-08
SMOKING.

Very many good persons, and not
few bad ONES, condemn the use of
tbbacrO. Some of the firstinamed go
so far as to declare that "nO man can
he christian who uses tobacco. A
mans body is the temple of God
the use of tobacco defiles the body:
detiling the body is defiiing the tenn
pie OF God, and he who defiles the
temple Commits siu." Others, not
quite SO dogm attic, object to the use
OF tObacco because it, fumes are of
fensive 60 Others, and, they say, no
one has a right to- commit a nuisance.
Still Others declare it is injurious to
the physical aud mental condition,
aud should be condemned on that ac
count, and for economical reasons not
few would discourage the use of the
vile weed.
Aud still the use OF tobacco in
cresses every year. The illustrated
London NesOs says:-
aDr. Johnson, who did not smoke
him-elf, and called it a shocking
Thug, wondered why smoking had
tsone cut since 1t required so little
i exertiOn, aud yet preserves the mind
from total vacuity. What would
johnson sag If he could witness the
Increase of smoking nowadays? Poets
smoke for inspiration, clergymen for
soiace. business men to forget their
cares, all men FIR cnlnpanionship
AID DR.. job, son. the most clubbable
sf mnrtaIs I'm his own day, would bt
freed t0 smoke il he belonged to II
club La ours. There is, indeed, no
WAY of escaping from tobacco unless
we. go oIgt { the world altogether, o.
join the Young Mems Christian A.
s.ariation FrOu this sacred retreat
flsf divine herb is bamiShell, hut no
witbsut pr0sest; and q writer ha
lately stated from personal kmowl, dgt
at..llany young men fall into evi.
ways in L1n,iDu because the legIti
y t,ase pleasure of u pipe is denied TO
them In THIS excellent institution.
sure " he says, 'godliness and
smoking are not necessarily antagOt-
isIic' Ii they are, il is To be feared
there is but little gudlIness left in the
country"
6f Ia the Hawaiian Islands tobacco
4las been usel since tif not bef"reJ
they were '.discovered," and the
amount consumed has stea'Iiiy in-
creased eacil year. The custom house
reports for the pasi eleven years (lS70
,I,IA
OF ts4e tobacco imp ,rted into the king
doal llas risen from 900 III 1873 To
$l59.dO3 IN 1883 During that time
the total vaiuekof the amount i'm
pngted Was $S3ss5S0. OF course il IL
out Oh the question to suppose that we
can give anything more than a
ghly approximate est mate of the
: number q. t,IbaccO users IN the King
dom; but ;..Aan1cl a., aside from
there being, pr.1bab y, larger pro
portion of adult uales here wHO COLI
suile the weed than in any Other
country we know Of there are also
m uy more females aud children
here that smoke than are iO be found
4isewhere, We think We can assume
out-,f an estimated population of so,
coo there are 5000 vino use tobacco,
thai is To say Ihree-fOurlhs. A con-
siderable quantity of the tobacco
brought lnIO the c untry was sent out
again IN vessels to the Gilbert IslaI d.
and South Seas, aud, in former years,
gond deal was taken away 10y
wilalers recruiting here. But this
was principally Tobacco" in bulk, AMI
the cigars aud cigarettes imported
w, re almost, if not quite, all con
summed here. Tie cigars numhere'j
2S.5O0,O00, and the cigarettes $780,
0o0 The latter, it may he mentioned,
were not especially enumerated un.
ill 1882, being classed with "manu-
fac ured tnbaccO" prior TO thai period.
the number given above are those
itIp,rted in 1851, 49, aud 'sS, there
being 8, 100000 imported in the latter
year.
Smokers are divided into three
elasses-totacco, cigar and cigarette
smoker; neither OF which indulge tc
any great degree In the others