ISBN: 9781458985507

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: cession. It bids him be content where he is and discourages forging ahead to grander conquests. Of all masters tobacco is the most despotic. It possesses the bodies of its slaves when present and their thoughts when absent. CHAPTER VII. The Tobacco Tyrant's Exactions. There are in every community large Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: cession. It bids him be content where he is and discourages forging ahead to grander conquests. Of all masters tobacco is the most despotic. It possesses the bodies of its slaves when present and their thoughts when absent. CHAPTER VII. The Tobacco Tyrant's Exactions. There are in every community large numbers of good husbands and fathers, honored citizens, successful business men and total abstinence Church members, who use tobacco and don't seem the worse for it. Very true; but you never observe one of them standing on the street corner advising young men to take up the habit. On the contrary, all declare it hurtful and wish they were well rid of it. These men, as a rule, have strong minds and are firm set in righteous ways, and yet the downward draft of nicotine toward inertia makes them brace sharply in resistance and thus squander force from which no results of worth ever come back. Tobacco makes tasks harder to do. Hence if a smoker's business affairs are kept in proper shape it exhausts about all his energy and there is no surplus for public duties or altruistic endeavor. Other things being equal, a business man without the habit and one with are in comparative capacity for exacting service, like two persons ascending a mountain, one free of all encumbrance and the other with a twenty-five- pound knapsack strapped to his back. A commercial disaster is more liable to unnerve the tobacco user, who will worry and smoke while the other fellow, free from tobacco, is up and grappling with his fate. Tobacco takes the spontaneous valor out of a man, leaving him in bad form to front vexing emergencies. So long as business moves on with automatic regularity the smoker is apparently as good a man as any, but let asudden break occur, that demands instant att. Books, Literary Collections~~General, Tobacco-and-Its-Bondage~~Lester-C-Hubbard, 999999999, Tobacco And Its Bondage, Lester C. Hubbard, 1458985504, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

1898, ISBN: 9781458985507

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