Posted by Ann on 10/2/2001, 6:11 pm ~James Allen Tobacco is an article that ought not to be used even as a medicine. There are few articles of medicines more powerful and more dangrous in their use. No man, in health, can make a daily use of it, to gratify his appetite, without certain injury to his constitution. He may not perceive the injurious effects for year, on account of the immediate exhilaration, but complicated chronic complaints will, after a time, creep upon him, making life a burden, and ending in premature dissolution, though he may impute his sufferings to other causes, and even die fooled, in unsuspicious confidence, in the arms of his murder. ~From Chapter II of "The Mysteries of Tobacco" I have never smoked in my life and look forward to a time when the world will look back with amazement and disgust to a practice so unatural and offensive. ~George Bernard Shaw Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. ~Mark Twain The profession has no idea of the ignorance of the public regarding the nature of tobacco; even intelligent, well-educated men stare in astonishment when you tell them that tobacco is one of the most powerful poisons we possess. Now is this right? Has the medical profession done its duty? Ought we not as a body to have told the public that of all our poisons it is the most insidious, uncertain, and in full doses the most deadly? ~Professor Samuel Solly, an eminent London surgeon
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
by Rev. Benjamin I. Lane (1845)
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