So both of these two great groups of business corporations are becoming powerful agencies for the promotion of temperance.
Within fifty years from now the habitual use of alcohol will probably have become quite rare.

It is already becoming "good form" among the best people not to drink; and the fashion will spread, as the bad effects of alcohol become more generally understood.
TOBACCO Smoking, a Senseless Habit.

Smoking is the curious act of drawing smoke into the mouth and puffing it out again.

Why this custom should have become so widespread is even a greater puzzle than is the drinking of alcohol.

In civilized countries at least, it is a custom of much more recent growth than "drinking," as it was introduced into Europe from America by the early explorers, notably those sent out by Sir Walter Raleigh.