[Grappling with the Monster by T. S. Arthur]@TWC D-Link bookGrappling with the Monster CHAPTER X 2/8
As little as twelve grains in six ounces of water having thus acted; and from half a drachm to two drachms in a number of instances.
When men chew as high as a pound and a quarter of strong navy tobacco a week, or three packages of fine-cut in a day, it must certainly tell upon them sooner or later; or even in much less quantity. If men used tobacco in moderation, there would be much less objection to it, if it was not so intimately ASSOCIATED WITH THE HABIT OF DRINKING. This is recognized by the trade, in the fact that we see many tobacco stores as the entrance to drinking saloons.
Ninety-three per cent.
of the men who have been admitted to the Franklin Reformatory Home used tobacco, and eighty per cent.
of them chewed it.
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