Tobacco and Tea by James White

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 1, 1856

Tobacco and Tea.

By James White

AMONG those who profess faith in the Third Message are probably no less than 1000 families who have left (or should immediately leave) the use of tobacco and tea. The average expense to each family could not be less than $10, yearly, making in all the round sum of $10,000 saved (or should be) by the friends of present truth in leaving the poisonous (to say nothing of the extremely filthy character of tobacco) weeds of tobacco and tea. This sum would be sufficient to sustain thirty Missionaries in new fields of labor. What a shameful fact, that there are those among us, professing much zeal in the cause, who are too poor to pay for their paper, or help the preacher who may visit them. Yet they contrive to raise the cash to purchase tobacco and tea! J. W.