Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... TOBACCO: THE DESTROYER A Compilation of Convincing Evidence Is tobacco a poison? Does it destroy or do serious injury to mankind? Even if both the foregoing questions be answered "YES" by Science, is it not possible that the general harmfulness of tobacco habit is overrated by those who are opposed to tobacco? These are fair questions. I am fair, too. I am not an anti-tobacco crank in the usual sense of the term. I recognize the tobacco industry as an enormous one. I know there are many excellent persons engaged in it. I have friends who are high in the councils of Tobaccodom. I hate quarrels or acrimonious debates. But, withal, I am a fighter against what my moral sense tells me is wrong. Therefore I must frankly acknowledge that I am convinced tobacco is a race poison, and that the trifling part it fills in human sociability is not worthy of consideration when compared with the vast amount of harm that it is doing to humanity. In this Appendix I give facts. Everything is proven by "chapter and verse." I have covered the subject widely, being limited in the results set down here solely by my desire to keep this book under encyclopedic size. In these researches loads of opinions and beliefs have been discarded because they were not scientifically conclusive, although, as a matter of fact, they were largely true. At the end of the Appendix you will find the list of authorities from which the evidence has been compiled. The references are indicated by small elevated numbers; as, for example, I mention1 that, according to one of the most recently issued volumes by a recognized authority, tobacco can be worse for the users than opium or its derivatives, including morphine. TOBACCO IS A POISON Where shall we find the information as to what...
