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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 6, 1888

A BETTER WAY.

SPEAKING of the various devices for the absorption of nicotine by tobacco pipes, a secular paper says:—

"Nothing, however, is half so effective as the corn-cob bowl. It absorbs all the nicotine in tobacco, until the pores of the pipe are full. Corn-cob pipes should not be smoked more than a week. After they are saturated with nicotine it is very injurious to smoke them, because then the smoker gets the concentrated nicotine from the bowl. They cost only five or ten cents apiece, and are very sweet when new."

Would not common sense suggest, however, that a much better and altogether safer way would be to let the poisonous weed entirely alone? While a new corn-cob pipe does undoubtedly absorb some of the deadly poison of the burning tobacco, it does not absorb it all; and if it did, no smoker would care to use one. Tobacco is a narcotic poison, and it is because it is a narcotic that men smoke it. The tobacco-smoker would care no more for tobacco devoid of poison than the beer-guzzler would for lager which contained no alcohol.