Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1900-01-06
A sMokRR,s VIEW.
Using Mider Tobacco and Less Of It
as He Grows older.

as He Grows older.
'As a youngster in the army. thirty
odd years ago" said smoker,
smoked plug tobacco and liked IT,
used to cut off thin shavings across
the LAYERS. from the end of the plug,
and roll them and crumble them be.
tween the palms OF the hands and
then load up the old pipe and smoke
It took q powerful draft to get this
tobacco started, but it held fire wen
and made a good, long smoke; and
after q supper of boiled pork, hard
bread and lineup cOifee-that, you see,
was what you might call pretty solid
food to smoke on--a pipe OF cut plug
was a eelight. But gracious goodness!
/ couldn't begin to smoke that now; a
pipe like that now would knock me
clean over; but do like TO get sniff
OF lust such a pipe on n cool morning
before breakfast In the open air, when
happen TO walk behind man smok-
ing one.
Il continued smoking after | got out
of the army. Smoking a pipe good
deal, but not plug tobacco, and COM
ing finally to smoking chiefly cigars,
and these rather strong; and l came
finally, too, to rely on tobacco a good
deal to brace me up in my work, and
il was a great help and comfort and
/ could do better with it than without
Il; but at last the time came when it
was Just the other way; when it did
not stimulate me; but when rather,
my fire seemed clogged by It; when
though freely used for fuel tobacco
| didn't generate the heat, nor afford
the stimulus az all that it once had.
Il was still a comfort, but no longer a
help in the work. and ia tine it came
TO be a drawback; 10 retard rather
than facilitate my mental operations.
Il gave a little glow at the outset, but
IL was soon lost. and the brain, as one
might say, became Opaque and insen-
sible and so tobacco came to be worse
than no help, hindrance, as far as
\ work was concerned.
"One time q wise friend told me of
a friend of his who had been immense
" benefited by abstaining from tobac-
| co. and inside up my mind TO try that
myself-I was sort of run down and
half played out-and for two years
and a half used no tobacco whatever,
4 It was hard work TO give it up, but
soon got used to being without it, and
soon / began to feel better, a better
tone, a better nerve. and better grip
generally. II did me pile of good to
b give up smoking that two years and a
, half; IL seemed to sort of shake out OF
, me the ragged nerve ends and to
freshen me and brighten me and
{ strengthen me. It was giving nature q
b chance, and nature responded by civ
ing me buoyancy and power Of resist
/ ance. Nothing ever did me more good
than that long period of abstention
3 4.f.. Il
in good shape again, and then once
more took up smoking. That may
seem foolish perhaps it was, but
that's what I did.
. Il had a few cigars. the last Of 2
box from which | had been smoking
when I stopped and ] got out one Of
them with anticipatiOns of great pleas
ure. These anticipations were real
lied, though not only at the beginning
" for the smoking Of the cigar before
, got through With it pretty nearly up
D set me. But the next cigar didn't at
r feet me that way With that l fell in
; to the old habit of smoking readily
r so hard Is It to give up the habit ant
T. so easy TO resume il.
J. but / soon found that for my owl
comfort and welfare, If / were to u.s.
tobacco at all, J must use 1t Ia moder
alton. Mine is @ mental occupation
n but / suppose a man can work as har,
z. with q pen as he can with q pick
" When resumed smoking / tried it al
?. q stimulant at work, but I prompt,
r. found that that wouldn't do at all. I
j. gave light and agreeable exaltatiol
d at the outset but, as before, one no
n at all lasting nor of sufficient force Il
= be valuable, and not only that effect
brief and heeting. but continues
smoking while at work served now
as IL had come to do years before
only to clog up the brain. In fact,
II found that as far as I was concerned
3 could not work and smoke. too
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