The Smoker's Hand-book: Or A Dissuasive Against the Use of Tobacco

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Horsell and Shirrefs, 1854 - 22 頁

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第 7 頁 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fumes thereof, nearest resembling the horrible stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
第 7 頁 - Have you not reason then to be ashamed, and to forbear this filthy novelty, so basely grounded, so foolishly received and so grossly mistaken in the right use thereof?
第 6 頁 - Dodona's Shrine Drank Inspiration from the Steam divine. Poison that cures, a Vapour that affords Content, more solid than the Smile of Lords : Rest to the Weary, to the Hungry Food, The last kind Refuge of the WISE and GOOD...
第 7 頁 - Innocent; nnd, about twenty-nine years afterwards, the Sultan Amurath IV. made smoking a capital offence. For a long time smoking was forbidden in Russia, under pain of having the nose cut off; and in some parts of Switzerland, it was likewise made a subject of public...
第 12 頁 - All experienced people will tell you that the habit of using tobacco, in any shape, will soon render you emaciated and consumptive, your nerves shattered, your spirits low and moody, your throat dry, and demanding stimulating drinks, your person filthy, and your habits those of a swine.
第 22 頁 - THE Indian weed withered quite ; Green at morn, cut down at night; Shows thy decay; all flesh is hay: Thus think, then drink tobacco.
第 11 頁 - I have been a Professor in this University twenty-three years, and can say, as a physician, that I never observed so many pallid faces, and so many marks of declining health ; nor ever knew so many hectical habits and consumptive affections...
第 14 頁 - It is with pain of heart," adds the same distinguished writer, " that I am obliged to say, I have known several, who, through their immoderate attachment to the pipe, have become mere sots. There are others who are walking unconcernedly in the same dangerous road. I tremble for them.
第 12 頁 - However used, whether smoked, chewed, or used as snuff, its action on the system is but little different. It is essentially a narcotic; and as such, it is detrimental to the power and healthiness of the nervous system, — as such, it stimulates at the expense of subsequent depression and eventual loss of tone, — as such, it interferes with the functions of assimilation and expenditure, — and as such is injurious to the health of the system.
第 21 頁 - A new-found vanity, which days of old Ne'er knew : a vanity that has beset The world, and made more slaves than Mahomet : That has condemn'd us to the servile yoke Of slavery, and made us slaves to smoke.

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