The evils of tobacco-using : an anti-tobacco pamphlet.

Date:
[Between 1870 and 1879?]
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Credit: The evils of tobacco-using : an anti-tobacco pamphlet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tastes, is evidently a thing unfit to minister to the wants of the human body. 3. Tobacco-using is a great cause of intemperance. The most observant workers in the temperance cause tell us that they seldom find a whisky drinker who is not also addicted to the use of tobacco. The significance of this fact is apparent. Tobacco is stimulating. At first, a small quantity will produce the desired effect. Pretty soon, as the system becomes accustomed to its presence, so that it is in a measure tolerated, a larger quid or an extra cigar is found to be necessary After a time, it is found very difficult with any amount of tobacco to obtain that de¬ gree of stimulation necessary to make the individual feel natural, and so some form of alcohol is resorted to, and the concluding step toward drunkenness is taken. Yes; to¬ bacco-using is the broad road which leads to drunkenness; and it is a failure to recognise this fact which has been one of the chief agents in rendering so futile the attempts of our well-meaning and energetic temperance reformers in combating the great foe of society, and religion— intemperance. Thousands of men have been won from the paths of drunkenness, and restored to society as useful members ; but a few months later found them the same infatuated victims of strong drink as formerly. Why did they fall ? The insatiable thirst for the fiery draught, the madden¬ ing desire of stimulation, was kept alive by the use of to¬ bacco,and they became an easy prey to their besetting sin. Drunkenness can never be cured until tobacco-using is eradicated from the land. 4. Tobacco intoxicates. Alcohol is not the only agent which will produce intoxi¬ cation. Inebriation is as plainly the consequence of to¬ bacco-using as of whisky-drinking. To be drunk, it is not essential that a person should be wholly delirious or