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The Physical and Moral Effects of Using Tobacco as a Luxury: A Prize Essay (Classic Reprint)

The Physical and Moral Effects of Using Tobacco as a Luxury: A Prize Essay (Classic Reprint)

William A. Alcott
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Were it possible, says Dr. Rush, for a being who had resided on our globe, to visit the inhabitants of a pla net where reason governed, and to tell them that a vile weed was in use among the inhabitants of the globe he had left, which afforded no nourishment that this weed was culti vated with immense care; that it was an important article of commerce; that the want of it produced much real mis ery; that its taste was extremely nauseous; that it was unfriendly to health and morals, and that the use of it was attended with a considerable loss of time and property, the account would be thought incredible. In no one view is it possible to contemplate the creature man, in a more absurd and ridiculous light than in his attachment to to bacco.

Some may be inclined to dissent from this opinion. Man's attachment to alcohol, they will say, is still more strange 'and even more ridiculous Or, in any event, tobac co does not, like alcohol, dethrone reason and make man a brute, or what is much worse. Yet a late writer on tobac co, Dr. L. B. Coles, of Boston, on his very first page,* as sures us that besides being a more filthy sin than liquor drinking, the use of tobacco, in any form, to the same ex cess, more effectually deranges the natural action of the system. It makes wider inroads into Nature's arrange ments, he continues, than alcohol. It disturbs, in a greater degree, the natural currents of life.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Language
English
Pages
38
Format
Paperback
Release
February 16, 2019
ISBN 13
9780260225368

The Physical and Moral Effects of Using Tobacco as a Luxury: A Prize Essay (Classic Reprint)

William A. Alcott
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Excerpt from The Physical and Moral Effects of Using Tobacco as a A Prize Essay

Were it possible, says Dr. Rush, for a being who had resided on our globe, to visit the inhabitants of a pla net where reason governed, and to tell them that a vile weed was in use among the inhabitants of the globe he had left, which afforded no nourishment that this weed was culti vated with immense care; that it was an important article of commerce; that the want of it produced much real mis ery; that its taste was extremely nauseous; that it was unfriendly to health and morals, and that the use of it was attended with a considerable loss of time and property, the account would be thought incredible. In no one view is it possible to contemplate the creature man, in a more absurd and ridiculous light than in his attachment to to bacco.

Some may be inclined to dissent from this opinion. Man's attachment to alcohol, they will say, is still more strange 'and even more ridiculous Or, in any event, tobac co does not, like alcohol, dethrone reason and make man a brute, or what is much worse. Yet a late writer on tobac co, Dr. L. B. Coles, of Boston, on his very first page,* as sures us that besides being a more filthy sin than liquor drinking, the use of tobacco, in any form, to the same ex cess, more effectually deranges the natural action of the system. It makes wider inroads into Nature's arrange ments, he continues, than alcohol. It disturbs, in a greater degree, the natural currents of life.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Language
English
Pages
38
Format
Paperback
Release
February 16, 2019
ISBN 13
9780260225368

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