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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 3, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 17.

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"Just Tobacco"

By Christian Guardian

A CIGAR never hurt any one if it was left alone.
The unselfish tobacco-user has yet to be born.
One pipeful of tobacco can destroy the comfort of 100, yes, perhaps of 500, no-tobacco users.
If your dog started to use tobacco, you would probably shoot him.
If your wife or sister started to use it, you would probably be disgusted; but yourself — ah! that's different.
One smoker makes many; and not one is improved in the making.
Your tobacco costs you more than the money you pay for it. Impaired health, lessened labor power, waste of time, loss of will-power, diminished Christian influence, — these are some of the things tobacco costs some of its users.
Jerry McAuley claimed that no drunkard ever reformed permanently unless he abandoned the use of tobacco.
The church is too sacred to be fouled with tobacco smoke; so is the home; while the body of man is more sacred than either.
If your body really belongs to God, can you consistently put a pipe between your teeth, or fill your mouth with the poisonous weed?
Don't whine when you are hit. Don't hide behind some other man. Don't plead weakness. Face your foe — and fight it.
You can quit if you will. It isn't easy, but it is possible.
The theory that cigaret-smoking will injure a boy, but pipe-smoking will not hurt a grown man, somehow does not sound quite logical.
The parents who wish their boy to follow their example by learning to use the weed, are very few in number.