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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 8, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 48.

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Tobacco

THE talk we hear now and then about the value of tobacco as an antiseptic, is mostly nonsense. It is, perhaps, just about as deadly to certain low forms of life as moth balls are; but the fact that moth balls partially protect our furs is no valid reason for eating or smoking them. Tobacco will kill the green aphids on the apple-tree, if its juice is duly applied to them; but so will kerosene. If the fact that it will kill aphids is an argument for chewing tobacco, it is just as good an argument for drinking kerosene. We do not want to eat, drink, or smoke everything that will kill bugs.—The Oregonian.