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"A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City"

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What is the name of the strongest poison in tobacco?--"Nicotine."
What harm does tobacco poison do to the body?--See Blackboard Outline.
What harm does it do to the mind?--See Blackboard Outline.
Whom does it harm most?--"Those who begin to use it when they are children
or very young."
What happens to children or young people if they use tobacco in any
way?--"They are not healthy; they are not strong; they do not grow fast;
they look pale and sickly."
How does the tobacco poison hurt their minds?--"They cannot learn fast;
they often forget what they have learned."
What often makes tobacco-chewers, snuffers, and smokers disagreeable to
clean people?--"Their breath smells of tobacco; their clothes smell of
tobacco; they poison the air with tobacco-fumes; some have the filthy habit
of spitting tobacco-juice wherever they happen to be."
What other harm does the use of tobacco do to people?--"It makes them waste
time and money; it leads some to drink alcoholic liquors and to go with bad
company."
If you are wise how will you treat tobacco?--"I will let it alone."
If you have begun to use it what had you better do?--"Give it up to-day."
Why to-day?--"Because the longer I use it the harder it will be for me to
give it up.


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