Punch,  59 (1870), 195.

Weeds of the Future

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Narcotics, Disease, Death


    Responds to an extract from an 'American journalist' reporting that scientific men have recently discovered that tobacco smoking will cause death in 'one hundred and sixty-seven years'. Thinks this hint is 'premature' and points out that Mr Punch has been smoking for thirty years but has marked in a diary for 2007 his intention to reduce his smoking.



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