Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 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…
