Child's Health Primer For Primary Classes / With Special Reference to the Effects of Alcoholic Drinks, Stimulants, and Narcotics upon The Human System

by Jane Andrews

9. How are drunkards made?

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CHAPTER VIII.

TOBACCO.

FARMER who had been in the habit of planting his fields with corn, wheat, and potatoes, once made up his mind to plant tobacco instead.

Let us see whether he did any good to the world by the change.

The tobacco plants grew up as tall as a little boy or girl, and spread out broad, green leaves.

By and by he pulled the stalks, and dried the leaves. Some of them he pressed into cakes of tobacco; some he rolled into cigars; and some he ground into snuff.