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قراءة كتاب Vanity, All Is Vanity: A Lecture on Tobacco and its effects
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Because you are not killed outright you flatter your self that you are not poisoned, but I tell you that you are, and you are dying by inches or by sixteenths of inches if you please, how ever small the effect on you it has some effect and finally by a continual pressing of that effect it will kill you. Put your ear to the huge locust tree and hear the gentle grating of a bore worm. Thou insignificant worm! What dost thou hope to do with that monster tree? Grate, grate, grate! For years that almost imperceptible grating goes on, while the mighty locust lifts its towering branches in fancied security. Finally, a storm comes and the locust hopes to brave it as he has many others; but, alas, its strength is undermined; Its vitals are eaten away, and it falls,—a victim to the tiny worm. Thus does tobacco, or alcohol, or opium, or any other poison when taken habitually, undermine the system, slowly, imperceptibly,—but surely.
Go into any tobacco factory of cigars, snuff, or plug, and bring out a healthy man if you can.
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Tobacco so destroys the sensations and functions of the mouth that, mild natural drinks, are not tasted; hence one craves strong drinks, something that will goad the deadened nerves into action. It produces a state of exhaustion in the whole system that calls for an artificial stimulus. Alcohol, ever true to its companion, steps in and supplies this artificial stimulus. It is a scientific fact that tobacco is responsible for more drunkards than alcohol. I know from my own experience, that smoking naturally calls for drinking. Walk through your town and look at the signs, and you will see them allied under the same colors, "liquors and cigars," "beer and pipes,"—always. When biddy can furnish but one decanter there you can get 'two cigars for a cent.' When a party of old gout-toed wine-bibers make a supper what do they do? Drink and smoke. When a party of Indians, trappers or soldiers gets to town "to have a blow out," what do they do? Drink and smoke. When "bloods" go out on a 'bender' what do they do? Drink and smoke. When low unprincipled men, thieves, villians, rowdies, rakes, murderers, the filth and offscourings of humanity meet together to carouse or design devilish schemes, what do they do? Drink and smoke.
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