Smyrna times., 1888-09-12
For the Smyrna Times.
Pro-Bono-Publico.
TOBACCO DRUNKARDs.
I Che,U, l Smoke, I Snuff, I Plug.


I Chew, l Smoke, I Snuff, I Plug.
Although daily seen and used by
thousands Of its votaries, the original
locality of tobacco is not settled to the
satisfaction of all botanists and there is
GOOD reason to believe that it is a ma
tive of tropical America, where it was
found by the Spaniards upon their ar
rival. 1t is seldom seen north OF
MARYLAND or Virginia.-perbaps it is
vet most cultivated in the latter state,
though at present it Is cultivated IN
most parts of the world.
The use of tobacco was adopted by
the Spaniards from the American In
dians. In the year of 1860, 1t was
introduced into France by the ambas-
sadOr of that country at the court OF
Lisbon, whose name NicOt-has been |
perpetuated in the generic title OF the |
plant-NicOtiGnG IObdcum.
The practice of smoking is said to |
have been introduced into England by
Sir Walter Raleigh. In the various
modes of smoking, chewing, snutiing
and plugging, the drug is now extern
sively consumed in every country on
! the globe; showing it must have prop
critics peculiarly adapted to the pro-
pensities of our nature, to have thus
surmOunted the first repuGuance to its
odor aud taste, and have become the
passion Of so many millions
A Spanish gentleman, named Her
man dez de Toledo, took a small guam
tity into Spain and Portugal 1850
from the new world, and thence
through the agency of the French
ambassador at Lisbon, it found its way
into Paris, where that merciless MUIR
deress, Catharine de Medicis, the aban-
doned instigator of the massacre of the
protestants on St. BartholOmew's day,
resided. This wicked woman may be
considered the inventor and intrOdUcer
of snuff, as we'll as the contriVer of
that most atrociOus transaction, under
the patronage Of the Cardinal Santa
Croce, the Pope's nuncio, who, return
ing from his embassy at the Spanish
and Portugal courts, carried the plant
. to his own country, and thus acquired
a fame little inferior to that which at
any period he had won by piously
bringing a portion of the real cross
from the Holy Land.
Tobacco was received with general
enthusiasm in the Papal States, and
hardly less favorably in England, into
which it was introduced by Sir Walter
i, Raleigh, in 1885. 1t was not however
without opposition that it gained {
footing in that country or in the rest 0
Europe.
Its principal opponents were thu
! priests, the physicians and the sover
W eign princes; ny the former, its u.s.
was declared sinful; and in 1924, Pop
; Urban VIII, published a bill excOm
e municaling ali persons found guilty Q
taking snuff when in church. In 1896
the bill was renewed. by Pope InOcen
and the Sultan Amurath ", twent
years afterwards made smoking caI
ital offence on the ground Of producin
infertility. In Russia, smoking for
long time was forbidden under the pei
ia aIty of having the nose cut off; and j
''S some parts of Switzerland, it was lik'
wise made subject of prosecution
the public regulations of the Canton
- Berne. 1861, placing the prohibition
q smoking in the list of the ten cor
q mandmeuts Immediately under tn
8 against adultery.
3 Nay. we may say, even that Brlt
Soloman, James /, did not think
his pen upon the subject. AccOrdingl
in 1908, he published his famous Cou
terblaste to Tobacco; in which t
remarkable passage occurs =" 1t Is
custom loathsome TO the eye, hateful
a the nose, harmful to the brain, dang'
q Gus to the lungs, and, in the blaC
sinking fumes thereof, nearest rese
. bling the horrible stygian smoke OF
pit that is bOttOmess."
3 The blood of James may still be p
ambulating through the systemic V
:. sells of the writer for the generate
past, tour fathers side is distinC
Y tracable to the house of York, and
writer has always held tobacco to be |
"a sonous and the most disgusting habi
which man can be addicted.
Notwithstanding the regal and sa'
dotal wrath of King James, we h
4 lived to see the weed extend itself
Ia and wide, and is at this moment
most universal and expensive lux
in existence.
"a King James father observes ="
. bacco is the lively image and patter
hell for it hath by allusion in it all
n parts and vices of the world, whel
Un hell may be gained" to Wit: " F
it is a smoke; so are all the varieti
nC the world. Secondly, it deligf
IN them that take it; so do all the pl
w ures of the world delighteth the
of the world. Thirdly, it maketh
drunken and light in the head and
:" the varieties of the world, men
H. drunken Herewith. Fouthly, he
taketh tobacco cannot leave it, it
.bUsA bewitch him, even so the pleasure
the world make men lOath to
rTA them, they are, for the most part
1s chauted with them. And, farther
sides all this, it is like hell in the
substance of it, for it is a stin
l LodthsOme thing, and so is he'll P'
moreover his majesty declares,
were he to invite the devil to d
that he should have three dish
first, a pig second, a poll of ling
. mustard; Third pipe of Tobacco
digestion"
A. fur. Let the reader and user of to
iprompt reflect and compare the morals of
romptly James and many of the chr
y desired. sired clergyman of the present day, :
sngth Of we know smoke after and bel
the best meals Are we not degenerating
stead of advancing in the cultivat
dc the moral sense.
uOI 1t is a common apology for the
edsteads, stimulents that our grandfathers
ss,spring then continuously and constant
ne ne guar, g01ne their lives and were healthy
jan 5tf strong, and lived to good old
True, they lived long in spite of
not in consequence of it. So
EDEn soldier live healthily through
EnEu exposure of a march, the camp a
Ezz periods of battle, but he does nc
Catarrh longer or stronger for them. /
not lengthen his life to be shot
HEUVs make him healthier to sleep
eadache mud. The tobacco drunkard, Ill
ia ing godIi5 INTO soldier, may survive, but hund
5Iralent, his comrades are under the so
g in ears the influences he has escaped
,feppsive. gep epsiESe. tobacco and rum drunkards SCI
debility. paratively well IN the gloom, bu
p pe % pres ores only proves that his sight has
destroyed by habit, not that darl
ropertileess good for the eyes. His system
ISIS 29s' to it as the eyes of a man long Ct
Original in dungeon to the darkness.
TITLE ever the stimulant, rum, cOh
p puIc or tobacco the perils of habit 6
~ y. ,I. lLLS' same, differing only in degree