There may be possibly as high as ninety-three per cent.

of male adults who smoke, but eighty per cent.

of chewers is undoubtedly a large proportion as compared with those in the same ranks of society who do not drink.
Although the poisonous symptoms of tobacco are, in a great degree, the same in different persons at the inception of the habit, the effects vary materially in after years according to the quantity and variety used, the form employed and the habits and temperament of the user.

One man will chew a paper a week, another four, many use one a day, and a few from one and a half to three a day, besides smoking.

Occasionally, but very rarely, we find a man who limits himself to one cigar a day, a number allow themselves but three, but of later years even these are moderate compared with those who use eight, ten or more.
There are many men who, for years, preserve a robust, hale appearance under both tobacco and whisky, who are, notwithstanding their apparent health, steadily laying the foundation of diseased heart, or DERANGEMENT OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS or nervous system from the former, or an organic fatal disease of the liver or kidneys from the latter.
Healthy-looking men are often rejected by examiners of life insurance companies because of irregular and intermittent action of the heart from tobacco; and equally robust subjects are forced to abandon the habit because of tremors, vertigo or a peculiar form of dyspepsia.