Responses on the Use of Tobacco (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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What! Another volume on Tobacco! Why not? If we have taken a correct view of the subject, its nature and wide-spread evils are such as to justify the publication not only of a second, but of a third and fourth volume. It is neither so pleasant, nor profitable in a pecuniary point of view, that we give it the preference to other topics. But, fully believing that mankind are suffering incalculable ills from its use, conscious of our weakness and of the power of the enemy, we have attempted their rescue. How far we shall have effected it, remains to be seen. We should rejoice to see some abler pen than ours do more ample justice to the subject. The reasons which have urged us forward to the expense and labor we have bestowed on this subject, have arisen from our personal experience of its very sad and mourn ful effects and, growing out of this, a benevolent.

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