Tobacco-Using Habit by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 20, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 37.

Tobacco-Using Habit

By Editor

TOBACCO is an uncleanly, expensive habit. It drains pocketbook and nerves. Most of its users in their sane and serious times heartily hate it, and wish they were forever freed from the weed.

Sometimes there is a feeling on the part of these that it is impossible to break the habit, and there is no question but that it is a hard habit to break. Especially is this true with nervous individuals. There are days sometimes of agony which follow the effort to break away from the habit. Those of a more sluggish, phlegmatic temperament have little trouble if they have the will to break, but we really pity those who are of an intensely nervous temperament and have much to do.

Yet entirely apart from one's will power there is the grace and strength of God. One can receive great help in breaking the habit by taking a course of eliminative treatment at some sanitarium. Hot baths and massage and other means of eliminating the poison from the body will help very materially in overcoming the power of the habit. We know from personal experience with many, many cases, that it is possible to break the habit; and those who have broken from it are very much better because of their victory, and we would plead with our readers who may be enchained by it to break from it. They will live longer, have clearer minds, better, more appreciative appetites, clearer spiritual perception, and what is also another item worthy of consideration, will save much in a financial way. As a matter of pure economy it is worth the struggle. As a matter of mental and spiritual freedom it is really demanded.