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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 1, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 6.

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Hard Times.

THE millions of dollars worse than thrown away according to the following statement which we clip from an exchange, is a striking comment upon the present cry of “hard times.” And no doubt many of those who have been the loudest in berating the times, are the very ones who have freely squandered their means on this old Moloch of tobacco. One of the first steps toward remedying the hardness of the times is for all to discard such pernicious indulgences.
“Last year 27,000,000 pounds of tobacco and nearly two billions of cigars were smoked, snuffed and chewed in this country, an increase of about 8,000,000 pounds of tobacco and 50,000,000 cigars as compared with the previous year.”