 | 1864 - 904 Seiten
...tobacco holds so firm a position, that of nearly every luxury it is the least injurious. It is innocuous as compared with alcohol, it does infinitely less harm than opium ; it is in no sense worse than tea ; and by the side of high living, altogether contrasts most favourably. A thorough smoker may or may... | |
 | 1864 - 578 Seiten
...holds so firm a position: —that of nearly every luxury it is the least injurious. It is innocuous as compared with alcohol, it does infinitely less harm than opium ; it is in no sense worse than tea and sugar; and by the side of high living, altogether it contrasts most favourably. A thorough smoker... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1865 - 874 Seiten
...man is better without, but of nearly every luxury, tobacco is the least injurious. It is innocuous as compared with alcohol ; it does infinitely less...harm than opium ; it is in no sense worse than tea ; and, by the side of high living, altogether contrasts most favourably. In an elaborate report " On... | |
 | 1865 - 388 Seiten
...holds so firm a footing is, that of nearly every luxury it is the least injurious. It is innocuous as compared with alcohol, it does infinitely less harm than opium ; it is in no sense worse than tea ; and by the side of high living, altogether contrasts most favorably. A thorough smoker may or may... | |
 | 1865 - 332 Seiten
...And yet Dr. Richardson considers tobacco "the least harmful of luxuries." "Itisinnocuous," he says, " as compared with alcohol ; it does infinitely less...harm than opium ; it is in no sense worse than tea and sugar ; and by the side of high living altogether it contrasts most favourably." From these two... | |
 | 1865 - 640 Seiten
...compared with alcohol ; it does infinitely left harm than opium ; it is in no sense worse than tea and sugar ; and by the side of high living altogether it contrasts most favourably." From these two somewhat opposed statements, the reader must draw his own conclusions for or against... | |
 | 1866 - 374 Seiten
...is in no sense worse than tea ; and by the side of high living, altogether contrasts most favorably. A thorough smoker may or may not be a hard drinker, but there is one thing he never is, a glutton ; inoeed, there is no cure for gluttony and all its train of certain and fatal evils like tobacco.... | |
 | 1866 - 368 Seiten
...is in no sense worse than tea ; and by the side of high living, altogether contrasts most favorably. A thorough smoker may or may not be a hard drinker, but there is one thin" he never is, a glutton; indeed, there is no cure for gluttony and .ail its train of certain and... | |
 | 1865 - 372 Seiten
...holds so iirrn a footing is, that of nearly every luxury it is the least injurious. It is innocuous as compared with alcohol, it does infinitely less harm than opium ; it is in no sense worse than tea ; and by the side of high living, altogether contrasts most favorably. A thorough smoker may or may... | |
 | Albert Augustus Gore - 1876 - 246 Seiten
...holds so firm a footing is, that of nearly every luxury it is the least injurious. It is innocuous as compared with alcohol; it does infinitely less harm than opium; it is in no sense worse than tea; and by the side of high living altogether contrasts most favourably. A thorough smoker is never a glutton.... | |
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It is innocuous as compared with alcohol, it does infinitely less harm than opium ; it is in no sense worse than tea ; and by the side of high living, altogether contrasts most favourably. 
