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Credit: Smoke and flame / Manchester Anti-Narcotic League. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![my voice will yet be often heard against what men call the fragrant, but what I call the fatal, weed.” It was the beginning of new days. He arose a chas¬ tened man, returned to the place where he had fallen, and there redeemed his character. He is now a sober, honoured man. Most of his smoking companions have come to grief. None of them are yet great men. Fred has become wise. He is no bigot. He knows and admits that there are instances of successful men who smoke ; but he yet emphatically insists that all young men who learn to smoke take a downward step which has ruined multitudes of them in a few years, and he is resolved to cry aloud and spare not against one of the worst, because most insidious and harmless looking, indulgences of the present day. If his better experience should warn others, he will not have suffered nor written in vain. THE “ THOROUGHGOING ” PLEDGE. promise, by Divine Assistance, to Abstain from all Beverages that contain Alcohol. Also from Opium, Chloral, Chlorodyne,and Tobacco in every form. For information about the Temperance Catechism, Pledge Cards, Tracts, or Pamphlets, and how to form an Anti-Tobacco Auxiliary, address, Secretary, Anti-Narcotic League, 25, Market Street, Manchester. Illustrated Series on Smoking.] [No. 4.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30471424_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
