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 smoke eight ounces of tobacco in as many hours it is not unlikely he will die, or at any rate be grievously sick, but this amounts only to saying that "Tobacco, if it be used to an inordinate extent by one not used to it, will act as a poison," which might be said of well-nigh every substance we can think of as capable of being taken into the body. But yet not a slow poison, for the boy would probably die in a very short space of time, or be at death's-door for a day or two and then recover. So in no case can tobacco be said to be a slow poison, and only a poison when taken under exceptional surroundings. And, in fact, this argument, or rather statement (for an argument requires its terms to have a distinct meaning, and also a solid foundation), is mostly brought forward by those who

Compound for sins they are inclined to

By damning those they have no mind to."

Such as are, for instance, your fine City dames, who will become well-nigh exanimate at the smell of good wholesome