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Mark Twain and his Views on Smoking Cigarettes



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It appears Mark Twain was a great lover of a good smoke. Having

been a writer, and smoker, his entire life, he probably met

folks that attempted to force the third precious thing down his

throat on many occasions. You bet! The well-known author of The

Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn was a smoker

and loved to smoke. Reproduced below is what he said about

smoking:



"I don't want any of your statistics. I took your whole batch

and lit my pipe with it. I hate your kind of people. You are

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always ciphering out how much a man's health is injured, and how

much his intellect is impaired, and how many pitiful dollars and

cents he wastes in the course of ninety-two years' indulgence in

the fatal practice of smoking; and in the equally fatal practice

of drinking coffee; and in playing billiards occasionally; and

in taking a glass of wine at dinner, etc., etc., etc. . . . You

never see but one side of the question. You are blind to the

fact that most old men in America smoke and drink coffee,

although, according to your theory, they ought to have died

young; and that hearty old Englishmen drink wine and survive it,

and portly old Dutchmen both drink and smoke freely, and yet

grow older and fatter all the time. And you never try to find

out how much solid comfort, relaxation and enjoyment a man

derives from smoking in the course of a lifetime, (and which is

worth ten times the money he would save by letting it alone,)

nor the appalling aggregate of happiness lost in a lifetime by

your kind of people from NOT smoking."



Mark Twain, San Francisco, 1865



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Mark Twain and his Views on Smoking Cigarettes



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