p. 16 | The Evils of Tobacco

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 4, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 40.

The Evils of Tobacco

Tobacco is not only a bane to the one who uses it, it poisons the air which others are compelled to breathe. Many a wife goes into the grave, or is held in the bondage of ill health, from the fumes of a husband's breath and the exhalations of his body. And in many foolish or intemperate or queer sons and daughters the evil could be traced to the intemperate use of tobacco on the part of the parent. These are but a part of the contents of this Pandora's box. That bright men, good men, use it is no argument in its favor. We readily grant the fact; but they would be brighter, better, clearer-headed men if they used neither tobacco nor a substitute.