Smoking by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 13, 1882

Smoking.

By Editor

The Christian Intelligencer says: It is said that a child became a smoker under two years of age, beginning with very mild cigarettes, which his mother taught him to use in order to keep him quiet, and soon taking to strong cigars with great enjoyment. But at four he is in a hospital, undergoing treatment for spinal troubles, brought on by the effect of tobacco on his nerves.

A minister applied to Dr. Gray for relief. "I can cure you if you will give up tobacco." Said the man of God, "Do the best you can for me, Doctor, save me if you can, but I can't stop smoking."

Every day we meet smokers and chewers with the mark of death upon their faces.

The late Siro Delmonico was warned by the physicians of New York that he must die or quit smoking. He quit when he died. Do not condemn the mother overmuch. Those who use soothing syrups, or feed children on confectionery and rich pastry, are little wiser.

When we see how much tobacco, patent medicines, and alcoholic drinks are used, we cannot but think of Carlyle's remark about most of the population being of the sort that Solomon says may be brayed in a mortar with a pestle without undergoing any change.—Golden Censer.