The National tribune., 1892-06-16
AN ANTI-TOBACCONIST.
A Comrade Who Thinks the Use of the
Weed the Worst of Grimes.


Weed the Worst of Grimes.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: l have no.
ticed newspapers are being published in va
rious quarters warning against tobacco; also
hooks. ] have read the Tobacco Problem "
by Meta Lander, and would advise no one to
read it who breads the naked truth. Too
much truth is a nuisance. A little alloy OF
error and chenanagan makes business lively.
The men Of Ephesus proved that they knew
beans when they shouted Great is Diana OF
the Ephesians." Nothing like little hum
bug" as P. 7. Barnum once remarked to Tom
Thumb.
80 When Europeans first visited
New Zealand, they found in the native Maoris
the most finely developed and powerful men OF
any of the tribes inaabiting the Islands of the
Pacific. Since the introduction of tobacco. for
which the Maoris developed passionate lik-
ing, they have from this cause alone, it is said,
become decimated in numbers, and at the same
time reduced in stature, and in physical well
being. so as to be an altogether inferior type OF
men."-NeU York Medical Journal, Nov, 1883.
Here is pretty how dye do? What bust
ness had those New Zealanders to let tobacco
iujure them so? In fact. Macaulay had con-
tracted to have one of them to stand on the
ruins of London Bridge in the year 5000 and
wonder what had become of London.
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gagged in medical examinations for life insur-
ance, and il is astonishing how many men have
the tobacco heart Insurance companies are
beginning to see the danger of such symptoms,
and are beginning to reject for that cause"-
L. r. JEROME, NJ. d.
Here is another doctor proving that tobacco
enlaTges mems hearts and makes them too
liberal. But for tobacco the country would be
visited with pestilence aud ennui. The last
has devastated their ranks aud driven them
into the swamp. and they no longer climb the
trees and bark as they used to. The busiest
of our business men find time to fight off the
enemy by constantly smoking and chewing to
help reduce the supply in order to create de-
mand; our groceries, bakeries, confectioneries
and butcher shops are constantly fumigated
with the choicest and nastiest tobacco smoke
to keep off the plague of flies and musketos.
And a sublime flavor is thus added to our food,
which adds to its value and increases our
longevity. Even the busy milkmen do not
forget TO puff their fascinating smoke around,
over and into the milk-cans, and the milk
eagerly catches the enchanting favor, which is
so much enjoyed by infants as well as older
folks, and should they successfully run the
gauntlet and survive the medicine, they will
more readily fall into the glorious tobacco
habit with less nauseating ordeal of vomiting
and sickness
With what touching devotion / have seen
men walking the streets arm in arm with
ladies and putting tobacco smoke in their faces
to protect them from the grip; and the ladies'
don't seem to object. In fact, any lady who
should resist such kindness ought to be pub
licly reprimanded for such ingratitude
! once bought pound of crackers in coun-
try store which had been fumigated so thor
oughiy with the finest tobacco smoke of the
Connecticut cabbage leaf and Durham Bull,
Seal of North Carolina, Lone Fisherman
and several other States brands that it made
me sick but / never kick against little
thing like that. in fact, the tobacco smoke
doubtless prevented worms from invading
those crackers and devouring me after had
devoured them-a regular game of Kilkenny
cats and the survival of tho fittest." Such is
life.-H. c. FooTE, 382 w. Lake street, Chicago
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