smoking

is, for many a soldier, laborer, and exhausted poet, a narcotizing smoke that offers a refreshing solace. So if it shortens the average of human life a little, who shall say that it may not also render life somewhat richer in sensations and more interesting?

We do not propose here to blow an angry blast against the use of the marvellous weed.... We will not deny that soldiers in camp, weary laborers, tramps on the road, gentlemen of leisure, exhausted poets, and even preachers find a refreshing solace in the narcotizing smoke. If it shortens the average of human life a little, who shall say that it may not also render life somewhat richer in sensations and more interesting'

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