Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
... On this point there is not a doubt or hesitation; all unite in picturing in the strongest colours the frightful effects of the poison on youths under age, — how it stunts the growth, checks the development of all the powers of mind and body, destroys manhood, and whether by its irritating effects on some, or its soporific effects on others, leaves the early smoker at twenty or five-and-twenty years of age emasculated, trembling, effeminate. …
Let parents, teachers, masters of apprentices (many of whom have been hurried into acts of fraud and dishonesty to gratify the craving appetite for tobacco), and all who are in authority, use their power to put down this great national evil of boy-smoking. Let mothers, sisters, and wives use their influence to abate this ruinous practice, against which all who are in the least degree acquainted with the subject so loudly protest. ...
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Let parents, teachers, masters of apprentices (many of whom have been hurried into acts of fraud and dishonesty to gratify the craving appetite for tobacco), and all who are in authority, use their power to put down this great national evil of boy-smoking. Let mothers, sisters, and wives use their influence to abate this ruinous practice, against which all who are in the least degree acquainted with the subject so loudly protest. ...
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Francis Close on the evil of youthful smoking
[T]he deleterious and fatal consequences of youthful smoking. On this point there is not a doubt or hesitation; all unite in picturing in the strongest colours the frightful effects of the poison o…
