Tobacco and Alcohol (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | John Fiske | knygos.lt

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Excerpt from Tobacco and Alcohol: I. It Does Pay to Smoke; II. The Coming Man Will Drink Wine

Five weeks ago to-day the idea of writing an essay upon the physiological effects of Tobacco and Alcohol had never occurred to us. Nevertheless, the study of physiology and pathology-especially as relating to the action of narcotic-stimulants upon nutrition - has for several years afforded us, from time to time, agreeable recreation. And being called upon, in the discharge of a regularly-recurring duty, to review Mr. Parton's book entitled Smoking and Drinking, it seemed worth while, in justice to the subject, to go on writing, -until the present volume was the result.

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