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| Because you are not killed outright you flatter your self that you are |
| not poisoned, but I tell you that you are, and you are dying by inches |
| or by sixteenths of inches if you please, how ever small the effect on |
| you it has some effect and finally by a continual pressing of that |
| effect it will kill you. Put your ear to the huge locust tree and hear |
| the gentle grating of a bore worm. Thou insignificant worm! What dost |
| thou hope to do with that monster tree? Grate, grate, grate! For years |
| that almost imperceptible grating goes on, while the mighty locust |
| lifts its towering branches in fancied security. Finally, a storm |
| comes and the locust hopes to brave it as he has many others; but, |
| alas, its strength is undermined; Its vitals are eaten away, and it |
| falls,--a victim to the tiny worm. Thus does tobacco, or alcohol, or |
| opium, or any other poison when taken habitually, undermine the |
| system, slowly, imperceptibly,--but surely. |
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| Go into any tobacco factory of cigars, snuff, or plug, and bring out |
| a healthy man if you can.
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