It Is Wholly Bad.—A religious—professedly Christian—paper concludes a half apologetic article on tobacco with the following:—
"Tobacco is a bad thing, and its habit usually disgusting, but all that any man does with the weed, so far as it affects others, can readily be duplicated with sauerkraut or limburger cheese. The best thing is to teach that it is evil throughout. The coming man will not use tobacco. He will know better."
Yes, tobacco is bad; it is altogether bad; not alone in its unpleasant odor, in its befouling of mouths and garments, in its many "disgusting" features, but it is poisonous. It weakens the heart seriously, and brings on various diseases; it weakens the eyes; it poisons the blood; it benumbs soul and mind in their finer sensibilities so that God can not impress them with the sublime truths of His Word. So much, and even more, for the user. It can be paralleled by "sauerkraut" and "limburger" in one thing only—offensiveness of odor. And as to the coming man's not using tobacco, the multitude of cigaret smokers among boys and the growing practise among women belie the prediction.