TOBACCO RAISING | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 30, 1880

TOBACCO RAISING.

The Sunday-School Times, in reply to a correspondent, says: "The real question at issue is, Is tobacco a good thing or a bad one in the community? If it is a good thing, then the raising of it is commendable. If it is a bad thing, then the raising of it is a poor business—no matter how many honest people it keeps employed. It is never right to do a wrong thing for the purpose of helping others to live. If they can't live in a good business, they have no business to live. So far as tobacco is concerned, we count it bad, thoroughly bad. We think that the use of tobacco is a filthy habit; a stupefying, brain-deadening habit; a habit injurious to one's own health and character, and a nuisance to one's family, and to all who come in contact with him. But here is where we differ with a great many of our readers. If they are right in approving tobacco raising and tobacco using, we hope that our efforts on the other side will prove of no avail, but that all the rising generation will come to see how good a thing tobacco is, and what a blessing it is in the community. But if our view is the correct one, we trust it will prevail sooner or later—and we have confidence that it will."