. The funny side of physic : or, The mysteries of medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice. An exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries. HOW MUCH? Do you know how much money is being squandered to-day,in the United States, in the filthy, health-destroying use oftobacco ? No. Only $410,958 ! Thats all. In Commissioner Wellss report, it is shown that in thefiscal year ending June 30, 1868, the amount received fromthe tax on chewing and smoking tobacco was, in round num-bers, fifteen million dollars. Add to this the cost of pr
. The funny side of physic : or, The mysteries of medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice. An exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries. HOW MUCH? Do you know how much money is being squandered to-day,in the United States, in the filthy, health-destroying use oftobacco ? No. Only $410,958 ! Thats all. In Commissioner Wellss report, it is shown that in thefiscal year ending June 30, 1868, the amount received fromthe tax on chewing and smoking tobacco was, in round num-bers, fifteen million dollars. Add to this the cost of pro-duction, and dealers profits, which are five times more thanthe revenue tax, amounting to seventy-five million number of cigars taxed was six hundred millions. It iscalculated as many more are used through smuggling, mak- (033) 634 HOW MUCH? ing a grand total yearly expenditure in the United Statesof one hundred and fifty millions of dollars for tobaccoalone ! Give me $410, a day, and I will go into the pauperhouses of these United States, and bring forth every pauperchild ; I will go down into the dark, damp cellars, and awayinto the cobweb-hung attics, and bring forth every ragged. THE IDOL OF TOBACCO USERS. child of crime and poverty. I will take all these littlebread-and-gospel-starved children, feed, clothe, and sendthem to school and Sabbath school, the year round, with$410,958 a day. Christian ministers and professors, think of it! Youngmen and boys, think of it! WHAT TOBACCO DOES. 635 Yes, the Americans smoke, snuff, and chew one hundredand fifty million dollars in tobacco annually. The Chinamenconsume $38,294,200 worth of opium in a year. The Rus-sians stuff and glut over an unmerciful amount of lard andcandles in a year; and the Frenchmen disgust the rest ofmankind by eating all the frogs they can catch. Then thereare the cannibals of the South Seas — they love tender ba-bies to eat, but not an old tobacco-soaked sailor will theymasticate. Tobacco
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