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CHAPTER I V. "The use of tobacco, in smoking, is hurtful to young
persons who have scarcely attained their full development, and
still more so to children. The enormous quantity of saliva which it
causes them to secrete and waste, cannot but act injuriously upon
the great functions of the economy. Young smokers are, in general,
pale and thin, and the process of nutrition is not carried on
amongst them with full effect; this is the more evident, since
habitues usually indulge the practice under circumstances very
injurious to thdr health." Dr. B. A. Morel. 'Cxj Believe that I
would not be much in error were, -pP) I to sanction indulgence in
tobacco, to the youug lord who has nothing to do, and too much time
on his hands in which to do it; to those who are too hard-worked
physically or mentally, I readily allow it, and recommend its use
to all classes when advancing in years, and unable to realize the
more active joys of youth. But there are other smokers, in a
crusade against whom I could heartily unite with my anti-tobacco
friends. First and most objectionable are child smokers. When I see
a boyish unfurnished face, sucking a cigar or "clay," I feel
strongly tempted to lift my umbrella, and smite the scathing fire
from the juvenile mouth. I can only feel pity for the would-be man,
strutting aloug with one eye upon his elders soliciting admiration,
and the other cast in contempt upon any young companion, who more
fortunate, or more honest than himself, does not possess the coin,
with which to purchase a "penny Pickwick" or pipe of shag. In Great
Britain there are about 2,000,000 boys and young men, who smoke for
no other reason, that I can see, than that men do so; the principal
ambition of not a few being to emulate each other, in lighting one
cigar at the end of th...
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