A dissertation on the use and abuse of tobacco : Wherein the advantages and disadvantages attending the consumption of that entertaining weed, are particularly considered. Humbly addressed to all the tobacco-consumers in Great-Britain and Ireland, but especially to those among religious people .... / By Adam Clarke.

  • Adam Clarke
Date:
1798
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Credit: A dissertation on the use and abuse of tobacco : Wherein the advantages and disadvantages attending the consumption of that entertaining weed, are particularly considered. Humbly addressed to all the tobacco-consumers in Great-Britain and Ireland, but especially to those among religious people .... / By Adam Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a fine of 1000 livres.” * What a lingular mercy was this ! Had the ufe of it become common in Medicine, how many thoufands mult have been its vidims ere this time ! The impiety rnanifefted by feverai in the ufe of this herb, merits the moll cutting reproof. When many of the Tobacco- confumera get into trouble, or under any crofs or afflidion, inftead of looking to God for fupport ; the Pipe, the Snuff-box, or the Twifi, is applied to with quat- druple earneftnefs ; fo, that four times, (I might fay in fome cafes ten times) the ufual quantity is confumed on fuch occalions. What a comfort is this weed in time of forrow ! what a fupport in time of trouble ! In a word. What a god ! Again, the interruption occalioned in places of public worlhip by the ufe of the Snuff-box, is a matter of ferious concern to all thofe who are not guilty. When the moll folemn and imporr tant matters relative to God and man, eternal glory and eternal ruin, form the fubjed of a Preacher’s difeourfe, whofe very foul is in his work ; it is no unufual thing to fee the Snuff¬ box taken out, and officioully handed about to half a dozen of perfons on the fame feat. Would there not be as much propriety in bring¬ ing forth and diflributing fome off the common neceffaries of life ? <r But we do not go to the houfe of God to take our viduals.” Neir ther fhould you to take phylic. Never did Pope Urban the VIII. ad more like an Apollolic man, than when he made a Bull to excommunicate all thofe who took Tobacco in the Churches. * See Encyclopedia Methpdique^ Finances, Tom* iii. Artie, Tdbac»
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