Is smoking injurious? : the arguments pro and con rationally considered / by John Skelton.

  • Skelton, John, active 1852-1865.
Date:
[between 1860 and 1869?]
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Credit: Is smoking injurious? : the arguments pro and con rationally considered / by John Skelton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It is an expensive habit.—A very common smoker will expe d two or three pounds per annum. An average of three or four ciga. a day, amounts to ten or twelve pounds per annum. And all this goes for smoke and spittle. It is a growing habit.—I have said enough to convince any man that the habit once begun, there is no limit to its extent but wi*T the termination of life. It is an offensive habit.—It is offensive to the eye and nose ; ladies cordially hate it, and every good housekeeper dislikes to have her rooms impregnated with the smell of tobacco smoke. The in¬ delicate accompaniments of smoking and chewing are an annoyance to every house If smokers and chewers only knew the extent their offensiveness to others, they would soon give up the practice. How many youths can I recollect in my time, that thought them¬ selves men when they could master a cigar, and drink a glass of brandy!” And now we would simply ask, how many thousands of other¬ wise promising young men have perished body and soul through the prosecution of a foolish habit contracted from the force o. j, ridiculous fashion ? Could our prisons, penal settlements, living sufferers, and grave-yards expose their victims, humanity would stand aghast at the terrible disclosure, and with one instinctive shudder, cry—Away with Tobacco ! Note.—The controversy upon the question of Tobacco is now occupying an enlarged share of public attention, and many of our best writers are “ sharpen¬ ing their wits,” and doing their best to defend each his particular views. We consider it a question of great importance, particularly to the poor, who de¬ pend entirely upon their daily labour for their {C daily bread and seeing that they are the great sufferers in the fashionable folly of smoking, we have pub¬ lished our pamphlet in a cheap form in order that every one may have an opportunity to judge for himself. Our writers for the popular press, we trust, will not overlook the real merits of the question in their endeavours to arrive at “ truth,” for there is nothing easier than to deceive one’s self and other? where the criterion of judgment is taste. TnTOTICIE ! In the Press and shortly will be Published, A TREATISE ON THE VENEREAL DISEASE: By JOHN SKELTON, (MEMBER OE THE ROYAL COLLEGE OE SURGEONS OP ENGLAND), 13, AMenbam Terrace, Somers-Town, London. The Work will contain about Two Hundred Pages, royal 12mo.—a full and complete History of the Disease—Expose of Treatment—ancient and modern, and will demonstrate the Curability of Syphilis in all its forms by safe, simple means, and without injury to the general health. -LUvi.p Gjjuiiiia. WELLCOME INSTITUTE LIBRARY Co!L weiMOmac C^yTTs' tm' i^KisqcEii, -Bookbindeb, Statxonek, &.C., ] Cell. pa;,i 2-72.1 No. 1 Z 6 # > 1 S Z ' N