he effects of tobacco, as to avoid making further experiments
with it upon his own constitution.

Jonathan Cummings, Esq., an intelligent farmer, now living in Plymouth,
N. H., in a letter to Dr. Chadbourne, about three years ago, says that
he was accustomed to manual labor from childhood, and enjoyed almost
uninterrupted health, till he was twenty-five years old, about which
time he commenced chewing and smoking tobacco; having for some time
taken snuff for _weakness of his eyes_. His stomach soon became
affected, he had faintings and tremblings, and was unable to perform the
labor he had been accustomed to do. "I went on in this way," says he,
"for thirty years; tobacco seemed to be my only comfort; I thought that
I could not live without it.

"Two years ago, finding my strength still more rapidly declining, I
determined to be a slave to my appetites no longer, and I discontinued
the use of tobacco in every form. The trial was a severe one, but the
immediate improvement in my general health richly paid me for all I
suffered. My appetite has returned, my food nourishes me, and after
_thirty_ successive years of debility, I have become _strong_.

"My weight, during the time I used tobacco, varied from 130 to 140
pounds, but never exceeded 150; I now weigh over 180 and am a vigorous
old man. I am in a great measure, free from those stomach and liver
complaints, which followed me for thirty years. I do more work than I
did fifteen years ago, and use none of what you Doctors call artificial
stimulants; for I have more recently reformed as to tea, which I had
drank, at least twice a day, for forty-five years. It is useless,
therefore, for folks to tell me that it won't do to break off old
habits; I _know_, for I have tried it."

In an estimate of the expenses, incurred by what he calls his _bad
habits_, he puts his _tobacco_ only at _two dollars_ a year, (which he
says, is much below its actual cost,) his _snuff_ at _one dollar_, and
his tea at _four dollars_. At annual interest he computes that the
amount would be $615; "not reckoning loss of time and, now and then,
a Doctor's bill any thing." "A pretty little sum," says he, "for one
in my circumstances, having always been pressed for money."

In a letter I received from him about a year ago, he remarks, that,
among the symptoms of ill health, while he used tobacco, were "a hollow,
faint feeling at the stomach, want of appetite, and sometimes severe
spasms at the stom