It is a comforting thought that! though Old England has her war debts, her unemployed, her A. J. Cook's and the income tax, the United States has Prohibition and 'a most unholy proportion of cranks to her total population. The success (2) of Prohibition, we read, has inspired a big campaign to add cigarettes and tobacco to the list of human comforts denied to man We shall watch the progress of the campaign with the deepest interest, and some trepidation. We say trepidation, for we have a sneaking feeling that in the unlikely event of such a thing succeeding in the. States, there are not wanting in England individuals who would attempt to emulate that success in our own country. The very idea of life without tobacco is enough to make us shudder. There are, after all, few men who coul: not' face the prospect of alcoholic prohibition with a certain amount of fatalism and philosophy. But how many men would be really happy without a spoke? These are hectic days we live in. Life is swift and nerves are easily Tobacco provides a wonderful antidote, In times of emotional stress we fly to the weed; if we are in trouble, the cigarette or. pipe soothes and comforts us. If we ate at peace with the world, Philesophie or poetic mood, what pleasanter than to lie back comfortably in one's chair and watch the smoke rings curling lazily in the air? Opponents of tobacco dwell gloomily on the unhealthiness of the habit. They make dire pro-Phesies anent smoker's heart, warn the cigarette smoker against the danger of losing "his sight, and generally do their worst to' make Us feel as uncomfortable as possible. But Man has been smoking now for centuries and we have yet to learn that the physique of the race has suffered in consequence, or that our hospitals and cemeteries are crowded with the victims of Lady Nicotine.
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