On smoking : next to drunkenness there is nothing that so speedily injures a man's health as smoking / Alpha.

An article about the adverse physiological effects of smoking, written by 'Alpha' of the Loyal Perseverance Lodge, Thirsk, on 10th October 1838 and forming pages 315-316 of something. It mentions that the effect of smoking moderates the action of the heart which may help in cases of malaria, but wishes the use of tobacco were "altogether abandoned.".