Does it pay to smoke? / by an old smoker.

  • James Parton
Date:
[1872?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Does it pay to smoke? / by an old smoker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the scent of a bad cigar was an abomination to him. That Byron smoked, and loved “ the naked beauties ” of tobacco, he has told us in the most alluring verses the weed has ever inspired. Milton, Locke, Raleigh, Ben Jonson, Isaac Walton, Addison, Steele, Bolingbroke, Burns, Campbell, Scott, Talfourd, Christopher North, Lamb, were all smokers at some part of their lives. Among our Presidents, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, General Jackson, and probably many others, were smokers. Daniel Webster once smoked. Henry Clay, down to a late period of his life, chewed, smoked, and took snuff, but never approved of eithei piactice, and stopped two of them. General Grant smokes, but regrets that he does, and has reduced his daily allowance of cigars. Edwin Booth smokes, as do most of the gentlemen of his arduous piofession. Probably a majority of the physicians and surgeons in the United States, under forty years of age, are smokers ; and who ever knew a medical student that did not smoke furiously ? This, pci haps, is not to be wondered at, since doctors live upon the bodily sins of mankind. The question is, Does it pay these gentlemen to smoke ? They know it does not. It would be gross arrogance in any individual to lift up his voice in
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