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Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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SMOKING AND SNUFFING. 142 CAUSES OF NERYOUS AND BLOOD DERANGEMENTS. Every practice, indeed, which makes the conscience clearer, themind happier, and the functions of the whole system more regularand thorough in their performance, maybe put down as a good habit,and every practice producing an opposite effect maybe denounced as abad habit. It should also be borne in mind that what we may indulgein, or pursue occasionally with benefit, may injure us if it become ahabit, and that self-deception is easy if wilful ignorance is encour-aged. Fig. 42.
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A EUROPEAN TAKING HIS FIEST LESSON IN SMOKING. One of the most prevalent evil habits is the use of tobacco in comeform: chewing, smoking, or taking snuff. Children, largely becauseof their monkeyish ways or imitative faculty, or from the idea thatit makes them smart to do what their elders do, pick buts fromthe gutter or buy cheap cigarettes, and acquire a tolerance of thepoison by perseverance that would be very creditable to them in amore worthy effort. Many become cigarette fiends, and grow upwith shaky nerves. Early pioneers of this country learned the habit of BAB HABITS OF MANHOOD AND WOMANHOOD. 143 smoking of the aborigines of America, and the Asiatics somehowor other got hold of the trick themselves. Many fashionable ladieson both sides of the Atlantic smoke their cigarettoes, and a cigardealer in Boston makes the astounding announcement that he sellsan average of three hundred cigars daily for the use of the fair onesof oSTew England. According to Johnson, every female in the

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