Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-09-13

whom we force to inhale these poison.
Gus fumes without permitting them tt
participate i'm the enjoyment? If wO.
men did not possess a less developed
sense of smell than men, a fact thai
has been proved, they would surely
have revoltcd a long time ago. Though
only half sensitive to odors, as they
are, they will not hesitate to tell yor
what they think if you insist on know
ing. After assuring You that they just
love the smell of a good cigar they
will end by telling you that they de-
test this fouling of the air and thai
they always admire a man who alb
stains from smoking, at least in theil
presence.
Il admit" a smoker will say, that
the odor of anothers tobacco smoke Is
unpleasant, but you surely will not
deny that, to n man who smokes, g
choice Havana possesses an exquisite
taste and a delicious aroma"
Yes, my smoking friend. a choice
Havana does really contain a perfume
i'm it's smoke. or rather a subtle taste
which may even he compared with the
taste of the best Burgundy. But dc
you always smoke choice Havanas
And il you do, how many smokers are
able to do the same? Before the re-
cent added tax was put on tobacco In
France connoisseurs agreed that q
good cigar could not be bought here
for less than so centimes, and if you
wanted to get a really good cigar you
would have to pay 1 franc and 30 CEN
times. Then you may easily figure out
what you must pay today not to smoke
refuse.
Refuse is just what cheap tobacco is
I'm France as well as other places. II
is equivalent to ffth-class meal, tC
wine at two SOUS the ltre, to the kind
of food you get in the poorhouses. Re-
member that the French government
makes 900 per cent on n package OF
tobacco and on other things almost the
same proportion. When you pay fouI
sous for a cigar, it has not cost but a
fraction of one sous to produce.
The result is you smoke only refuse
and if you are quite honest you will
admit that you know it. The taste OF
your cigar is almost disagreeable tc
you. If 1t does not taste bad all the
way through it does so at least wher
you have smoked half of it. 1t vitiates
the air, it is bitter and nauseating. II
is no more tobacco than the working
mans petit verre" is choice liquor.
Why do we smoke, then? Not be-
cause we love the taste of tobacco
which it is next to impossible to get
pure and unadulterated in cigars or fol
the pipe.
Why do we smoke? Because smok-
ing is a pastime, because of the intoX-
ication which the poison produces. fol-
the same reason that makes the labor
er gulp down his glass of eXecrably
poisonous brandy.
1t is a series of pleasant gestures tC
walk into the barroom, to treat and he
treated to raise the glasses and bend
the elbow, and then fellows ultimately
the temporary stupor which most peo-
pie like. Every human being loves
sleep, which is the suspension Of ami
nation, and every one tries when
awake to enter into states of torpor
that resemble the precious sleep. That
is why people drink to feel their ideas
and thoughts grow confused, the sense
of reality disappear. In the same way
people smoke to feel their brain grow
heavy, to confuse their thoughts, to To-
calize all the activity of their head in
the mucous membranes of nose and
palate.
Tobacco, like alcohol, is nothing but
an occidental form of opium, and that
is why the quality of tobacco and alcO-
hol after all matter very little to the
consumer, who is only looking for the
pleasure of certain gestures and vari-
Gus degrees of intoXication-Pitts
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