it.

"True politeness," said a distinguished English scholar, "is kindness,
kindly expressed." The using of tobacco, especially by smoking, is any
thing but kindness or the kindly expression of it, when it creates an
atmosphere, which, whether it comes directly from the pipe, the cigar,
or deeply imbued clothing, or worse than alligator breath, is absolutely
insupportable to many, who do not use it, causing depression of
strength, dizziness, headache, sickness at the stomach, and sometimes
vomiting. By what rule of politeness, nay, on what principle of common
justice may I poison the atmosphere my neighbor is compelled to breathe,
or so load it with an unhealthy and loathsome material as to make him
uncomfortable or wretched so long as I am in his company? What would
be said of the physician, who, having acquired a strong liking for
asafetida, should allow himself in the constant habit of chewing it,
to the great annoyance, from his foul breath, of many of his patients,
as well as more or less of the healthy individuals of the families who
employ him? Or how would a _gentleman_ traveller be regarded, who should
not only keep his breath constantly imbued with this asafetida, but also
insist upon spurting successive mouthfuls of the tincture of it upon the
floor of a stage-coach, or of the cabin of a steam-boat? Would he be
commended, either for his cleanliness, politeness, or kindness? Nay,
would he be tolerated in such a violation of the principles of good
breeding? I have seen numbers, who have been made sick, dizzy, and pale,
by the breath of a smoker; and I have seen a person vomit out of a
stage-coach, from _the influence_ of that indescribable breath, which
results from alcoholic liquor and tobacco smoke.

How painful to see young men in our scientific and literary
institutions--men, who are soon to lead in our national councils, to
shape the morals and the manners of the circles of society, in which
they will move--making themselves downright sick, day after day, and
week after week, in order to form a habit of taking a disgusting poison,
steeping their nerves and their intellects in its narcotic influence,
the direct tendencies of which are to impair their health, to enfeeble
their minds, and to disqualify them for a place in cleanly and polite
society.

The use of tobacco, like that of alcoholic liquor, should be abandoned
totally and forever. The plan of taking less and less daily, is seldom
successful. This