of
these parts, when it has been much employed.

From what I have seen, I have been led to believe that this
article is not necessary nor useful for the preservation of
health; and that it is often a cause of weakness and
sickness. I am, with great respect,

Your ob't serv't,
JOHN C. WARREN.
_Boston, Jan. 25, 1832._

NOTE.--Many persons have the opinion that the use of tobacco
is a preventive of contagious diseases: because it has been
asserted that tobacconists and others living in the midst of
the effluvia of this article, are exempted from the attacks
of such disorders. The practices above alluded to, have in my
opinion, a contrary effect. Those who live constantly in the
region of tobacco, by the effect of habit cease to be
stimulated and over excited by the diffusion of its lighter
particles in the air they breathe. But those who employ it,
occasionally, whether in smoking, chewing or snuffing,
undergo an excitement, more or less considerable; which is
infallibly followed by a proportionate debility, in which
state, they would be subject to the attacks of a disease they
might otherwise have escaped.

J. C. W.

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Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as
possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other
inconsistencies. Corrections in the text are noted below, with
corrections inside the brackets:

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colorless solution, from which it is precipitated by a
tincture of galls. Tobacco yield[yields] its active matter to
water and proof spirit, but most perfectly to the latter; long

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thickening of the voice, is also the unavoidable result of
habitual snuff-taking. This disagreeble[disagreeable]
consequence is produced, either by partially filling up the

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This will appear from the following considerations[:]

Remedial agents ordinarily act on the system, by exciting the
living power through the medium of the nerves; hence when

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ministry, who are travelling this road to the grave. I
uniformly say to them: "Lay aside your pipes and tobacco, or
you are undone--your labors in the ministry will soon be at an
end."["][F]