The Tobacco Evil | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 31, 1883

The Tobacco Evil.

The United Presbyterian says: “The use of tobacco by children is said to be greatly on the increase, and efforts are being made in some quarters to have it stopped, or at least limited. The best way to do this is to have it curtailed among grown people. So long as it is proper for fathers and brothers to smoke, chew, snuff, etc., the children will consider they have a right to do so; and so long as it is esteemed a luxury for those who are grown, it should be so regarded for all. Children should have more luxuries than their elders, rather than fewer. If tobacco is to be done away with on the ground that it is an injury, it must be proven wrong for those who are supposed to be able to avoid such evils to use it.”