Smoking and smokers : the habit and its slaves : with appeals to mothers, wives, and sisters / by William Hate-Smoke.

  • Hate-Smoke, William, pseud.
Date:
1855
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Smoking and smokers : the habit and its slaves : with appeals to mothers, wives, and sisters / by William Hate-Smoke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    Smoliiiig aiiii Siitolicrs. “It must be allowed by all, that man ought to breathe the purest atmosphere he can, otherwise he is liable to very many and serious diseases. Now we all know, that in large towns the atmosphere is snflSciently bad without making it worse by tobacco-smoke; and who . ever went into the smoking-room of an inn, or common pot-house, and could say such an atmosphere was fit to breathe?”—From A Word to the Wise. I CAN imagine many a misty company of Smokers old and young, and of many a varied rank, laughing to very scorn the bare idea of putting down smoking and its atten- dant nuisances. Pausing in the midst of their suffocating whiffs, and ejecting the smoke and saliva they have inhaled and contaminated, they would doubtless give