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sell.worshiping dcmigod, Mmi s Mind . ancer end other debillmting and ul . brwth,andmakesthemouththickand
Man'a intellect hasn't been around timately letbel diseesxs . furry, the throet raw end the eyes red
Iong :tFerearesomelndicsaionslhatif About fifly years ago, a prominent - a dea exposure to any form ol
it isn't broken of its dangerous babit doctor ennounced to the world that he vegetehlemetter emoke,
of sd/assertive arrogence, it won't be hed found, by study ol statistical evl- Theri s lots nf obvious rwsons why
eroond muvA loogeq eirLer. de,ce, that smoking caused blindneas . man shouldn't emoke .
One of the Imest interesting exam . About forty years ago, Thomas Only . . . lor the three and a half
plee uf the arrngance of inlelleet seems Edison, Henry Ford m,d Hervey Flre . cenmries sinee tobacco became avail .
to mc to be the business of amaking stone were united In e campalgn to ebla in the Old World, Its uae has inrv
and Lenllh .lt'e got quite a history, of turn people away from cigaratea- creased, and an Immense ecnom
course ; we haven't time or epaee to Iheyhelpcdpopularir<theterm"coF,n inveament in the industry hubuilt
revl ewthe cummems mnde on smok . nails" for them . This trio ennounczd up .
ing end health back in the early 1500q that the causn of Ihe daoger of cigs .

..hen smoking was first introduced rettes ues the breakdown products When the amokingceusescencer
!ntc the Old World .'I'he dielribes on formed from the paper in which the publicity ceme out at the beginning
the subject O,en were, of comse, ori6i . tobacco was wrapped . (They smoked of 1961, the tobacco companies didn't
nnl ; „obody In the Old World had had cigaraJ aay much of anything except a very
any opportunity to complain about A Scottish doctor-it isn't reported soft and meaningless "We are study .
peoplee smuking before thauime . They whether he is a smoker or not-In a ing the matter ."
re poin¢d-lf less pdnteble- speech before a British Medical Soci. They'd had so experienee with
Ihml tbe onrs Leing issued corrently, ely meeting recently, in discussing the the subject. The rate of cigarette con-
„nd they hnd,I Ihink,far mure jus8 . rmt c. arettes correlation, aumption, in terms o1 cigarettes per
ficmio pointed out that in the last fifty years, cepitoover .fifteemyears .of•age in-
' Asof1592,eay,theavailabledme cerhesbeenshuwntobecarrelated ased stwdily from about WWI to
onlhesubjectefthoprolongedeftects withbeinggessedlnWWl,eatingfish, the early 1950s . Most etalielical cAarts
of smoking tubaeec were not very ex- expa•a-e to sun and wind, not eating don't quite ahow that particular point
lanl .e-and there uss eermioly ade- fish, NmoHug elgaretles, and thehairb . . . but you can get the figuree . Alung
qume nnd al ient data to ILe eNmt s of the secood phalanxes of tlm eround 1952 the emleumptien per
capita leveled off, and began to de-
tlmt .wnokeuesLigLlyundeairaLleand hngeraandtoess iulurinus w humsn beings
. Mcn had Ii s remarkable the amount of emm cline. Then in 1954 celne the firet great
been doing ercrylhing they could, ap . tlonal hent that seeme engendered by hlast of c!garettes<ause .lunpcm,eer
plying grem i, pen uiry o er Ihe course dds queuion ol smoking. There are publicity.
uf scores of millennie in an effort to su ne„y perfectly obvious, sound ms Cigarettes showed e prompt drop in
aintain the benefits of Fire, while nsfornotsmokingthmitispeculiar consumption . . . end after thel prompt
e!iminating he nox!ous wlors and ef. that so much emphasis is put en the response, amrted resuming thelr inteo
L, Is of Smoke. Far men to deliLer ceolmie o e like a barely duer rupted increase in per capita con
_ muly r so Ihls ages-long trend, and minable po sible en rolmiun between mpliun .
epend fine, eRon, and money raising dgeretm smaking and ea r . For su The tobsceo conmpanies had reeson
und prooessing a weed for the specific instance, tobacuo is expensive-oigc to be quite quiet in their response to
purpnse of getting smoke into themrettes m so than pipe tobacco, the 1964 publicity . The last time all
sclvee,aflerelllheagesspentdeve!np
, ehewing tobacco, nr snuR (HousI that hullabaloo went oH, the net effect
moke .diminatiny devices . ee end plant msintennnce people had been a resumption of Inureaeing
enrely I6at .as obviously ilisenily! re delighted at the sLift from chew~ . nnne~sumption .
Of oouraq tLey did, slse, ehew aud ing tobaeco to eigarettes, of course .) we've heard, fnr the lest four

nulfit .ISnutfwesto"cleartheheed" Smoking has led to unknown num~ hundred yesrs e why people
Sn the dnys before TV cnmmmcials bere of fires, eutomabile accidents, should not use tobaccu io eny form,
e vailnLletute!Ipeopleaboutver . andeccidentsolmherkindsdueto and for the last half.century In pertic-
nasal sprays, pills, ant prcpare- momentary inattention of a controb uler, we've been told most authorim.
tlons.) Gng operator . It'e ceused exploilon tively why cigarettes shouldn't be con .
In the mede.m diseussions of smok . in powder mills, mining areas end sumed .
Ing end health, the current posilion gasolinerefineries-eveninpourmilb Tbe only voice on the other side of
taken by olRu :iel government medical and granaries . the eubjat has been the slightly heng .
agencies Is that smoking b,duees lung It producee e marked odor an the dog, sheepish reply of the smoker . . .

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 "\Yvll . . . I like Ir" Lonk-smoking rv not a habit neMed desperately for food to a eom .
'I'obecco cumpenies are., o/ course, when the New World wee firstdiscov plmely nontreditional and inedible
Inrbidden to say airythingin their de. ered . It was not a habit anywhere but product!
Lnu, or in defense of their product . among the Indianaof Americe . Not just in Americe-where it had
\lLen the Ethical Authorities have Yetinlinlemorelhenacenturythe been known for n eenturies-/n S6
eacbed an Intellectual and Logical subsistance-level-if they ev n mam beru,Tibet, India,Africe .Curiously,
Ilccision,any voiees raised in oppesl . aged suhdstance!-peasents ol Tibel the tobacco plnntis native only to the
Gmiare obviously speaking for sc!fish were moking tobacco . Once tobacco Amerlcae, and Australia, both areae
..Il.interest, Evil, and co ncelees became available, it spreed [hrough . which became accessibletothe restot
yrnn motive . ('1'hose are the currently out the world in a manner unmatched the world at about the same time. The
. , eeptable tenns of damnation ; s few by any other commodity In the world'e panleular type of nicolinn cultivated
emuries a "heretic" and 'msi . history! in the United States is noe native to
fhrisd' wauld have gottea In there That's because "it's a habit" huh? North America, hut to South Amer
somehow . The modern damaaaon of Recauselhe wor!d's populmion,which Iea ; the North American epeoiee Is .
^FI'osi6on is somewhat handicapped had beer: «ying for thelest oae bun- cultivated eatensivelyix tbe US .S .q .
Iq the necessity of avolding the pos - dred thuusaud yeem minimun : to get Now amm,g the products thal bo-
sibility of making it look as though outofthesmokeottheircook!ngfires
t available when the New World

theY w am ; .capilslism and free - suddenly aheadphad a"habid' that was opened to trade were mafe, coca .
nuerpri ee of aouree.) made them buy tl :e elien, expena ine, conu6ie umariconn or marijuana,
I'dliketopointouuLattbemedirvl import?Lenrntogrowaweedthat c rubber,potatoes,maize,jimnon
prnfession hes failed one hundred per they'd n er known before? That's weed (which is a powerful hellueino .
rcnt nompletely la doing its praper "just e habit," is it? genic), choculele, quinine, c
duty respect ta this problem. cube or rotenone,end efew thousand
Ibeyb expended i e fime, ef. Why did a world populatia aud . other things .
lorteud money oaorm .ideoJtheissue denly take up a form of behavior The medicnl prufeseion holds that
nnf,i They hsve im c eted no effart ia thas w utterly al'.en, and a the buman race is stupid, faolis6, and
deiermining , .hy m cepted to . plete reversal of a6's of conditioned selLdissy~n~ive-lbathumnn bein9asim
haoco in thefrst place, and why they behavior? Why did m who had dulge themselves melmsly,, and
Imre maimainedthm aeeeptanceintbe smoked snything ethey d been eaperly adopt en, danpcroue and
facu of o hnndrcd yerfa9y valid, obmoked, but nat vnlmnnrily-auddenly habibfarmin ;, drug like labnaco.
jmtve reesnns lor pitchiag the whole take up a meet improbable aort ol So why did the humen race select
tobac a bn uss aut the wlndow, practice? Why did peaples n thc fram that wealth of n w prorluas, for
The only ais.rcrthe mediaalpeople reggod wlgc of starvation g ve up world-widemessivoconsumption,unly
ha, nem up it6
w1 "It'e habitfur rable land and their labor to produce cocoa, rubber, potatoes, chocolate and
.cal wumei Obviously that's xby motbin6thatwessooomplatelyami- quinine? And, of course, tobacco.
foallshpeaplelndstm.eontinu ;ngthat traditlonely Yo pads,mndmn egricul , Why not e ine? That's a
deslrudiee habit!" mrelexperts,wilh profeasimulprope phone, peimeesing, norryeoahing
I he mdy vxplaaalimi tbe medical geodistlaychalosist Ascking, have pacifier . It makes people faal happy,
people are ollering,in other words, Is tried and tried to got various subsisb strong, and s essful . Why didn't
that"It'sahabii" anee .luvelpeoplntoecceptenewagril that go overPcEvery medical man
'9Mcmr-your explmimim, i nnt culmrai praducl-amd /ailed! Central kna stupid hum n beinFs sngarly
cad cnaugL! You have nm done a Africsn nativeswho sre dying ofmal . ccept deetructive hebit4orming
salisfadoryjob oflookinS into an ex. nutrition due to protein starvation drugs . . .
treniely impmtant mauer from both on't raise suya beane-which would ]imson weed ; now there's s cheap,
.ides, and I ca,not, thercfarc, trust vathelives of their babies,end give very ess0y reised and processed hi ;;h-
r dded report!" is thc anly them sound heahh-beceuse that's not pnwer ballucinupe.n . Much simpler
pmpero reepunse tu tl:n present inde- traditional . lhan LSD or those aaered mushmom. .
Iensihlepnshion ni the medicnllreten Yet theee pee ente, ell over the How come that wasn't immedietely
nity, and in particular, the medicab world, suddenly sadopted the weird eprend acrossthe world?
ernmentel agencies which have habit of deliberately breathing in the Then marijuana . Of courw, that
bee : :mare responsible for this cencer- smoke of a smoldering fire,caretully had /ls Old World couaterparl, mnn .
cigarettes business than the general hoarded in a tiny fire pot on the end Afr indfea, or hashish ; that didn't
prectitianers . . of a tube . And devoted the land they continued on page 95

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spr .ml vcry mr either, so the failure ably astum judgment in what it ao we can ra!se n re than enough food
afmarijuana to catch worldinterestia cepted frnmthe New World and what anyway . But in many placea in the
underatandeble? it rejected . world, that !s not true .
Mnst of the things that did go into Except for tobacco . And the medi . But-why doee the kuman raca want
world distribution are readily underv cal profession, In the last four cern tobaccoP
smndnb!c Quin was the answer to turies,baa beentotally unable to find Medicalscience has,as its only an
the whole worldca wproblem of the any beneficial value whatever in that swer to that question, "You shoulddtl
malar!alperasite ; the world rookthet peculiar material. It's /uat a habit and it's bad for you ."
eagcrly and quickly . Curare ad But I do not believe we ean say "in And that, my dear doctor, is an
n,Lb represented highly technical fourcenturleeo/vying!"Theyappear absolute rwn eequUur in that it duesn't
pmblems ; it tuok a pretty well deve4 to have tr!ed very hard, for the last answer the question ct all .
upcd hinchcmicelsc!eneeto rccognize four uenm .iee, to prove that it wax an~edicineia convincedthatnicutine
thcn,fnr whetthey were . worthless, uselew, destructive, d .m Ie the ane and only impmpnt drug
South American ]ndios were catch- gereus, deleterious, and an economic material In tobacco. They consider
y; Gsh with uuhe root for ce,nnrios wssm . "the properties of tobacco" to mean
bofme biudemists caught on to what Without, at any fime, trying to ex. "the properties of nicntine ." With
they had . '1'ho toxin in w,be-naw plain the absolutely unparalleled ee. that postulate !n place, they aren't
calicd rmcmne-has the property of eeptence of a totally new mode of going to look eny further, to eee if
tenq,orarily perzlyzing fish and In- human behavior, o a world-wide there's wm entirely different sub-
eeets ; tbelndioswouldtluuwmeshed- scale, among even themoet rigidly etance which has eHectsthey've never
up cohe rent into a streom, and psm . hidebound rituaLtabun peoples of the thought uf.
lyse the fish !n tbe eveem . The fish planet. Amung people so dimpoor It rook medicine e very long time
prmnptly c me floating to the top, thetreiaingtobaccomeantnotraieing indeed to discover that the Hindu
shere the women waded out, looked food in a culture already atarving . herbdoctor's .uae of snnkeroot as a
O,enm uver, chose the plump ad well . "It . just a habit?" Buw did thaa med!cine u nut s"mere native euperr
devdoped o es for dinner, and ah Gabitgexaraned7 Why didn'teoca!ne, ntitiorJ' ad Lrelly leern that euch
lo .edtheotherstorecovarintenm!m e euslymarebabmformhog,make things astrenquiii :ers were possible.
ules nr so, and cnminue grmaving for similar atridea ecroes the continents? I suggest that tobscco contains
Immcolloetion . All the advantages of Coffee and tea spread-and so did something that has a quite different,
dynamiting a slream, with none ul the eboeoletecocoe-despite the fact that end yeFUnnamed, action in anme ways
disn,tvsntegas! those products must be imported into nnmparable to e trenquilirnr, but with
Maize didn't go over well ; ess most ol the conauming sreas of the ormeusly more .atiefactory eon
tially, it's just another cereal grain, world . mitants.
aad nutasef<deutim m~nsnlcelories Science has been magn!ficently one. coThe Indians called it "the Peace
per acre as rice,nor, !n terms of,alo- sided in its evduetion of tobaoeo ; Pipe." I think it ie . The tranquil!mrs,
rms pcnnamhuur of labor as whem . thcy've looked only for the evidence while they demp down nervuus tem
Bm pmatnesl Potatoes spread that would establish their predeter- adjiuers, aha damp out ambi .
. ...s the
e wnrld in recard 6me-s rrs- mined conviaion that the emg is bad . bidon, sense of responsibility, and
urd execulel only by that uselers, no. They have not done any job at all, let effectiveness . They've been called
good, wurlWess,laolish sluli,tubscuo
, alone a„ sdequato job, of explaining "don't-givesdamn" pilla .
I'cmtnes make scnse, o[ courso-they why that absolutely inmzdible e Tobacco seems to be dillerenq it
ruuld produ ,c m re fuod . velue per eeplanee ol tobacco took place-and does not reduce the sense of responei .
n poorer soil, under w why it remains solidly accepted, de~ bility or ambition-but it does seem to
dlmstlc conditions, than anything else spite elisorts of objective reasons for damp out the side.issue wr and
known to Mao . discarding it . naAging nuisance tbougbts,sos thet
In ot]mr words, every une of the Itie bad . It doea have undesirable effective thinking results.

New World products that the whole dangers . It does lead to firee, explo . mm How many of the worid's great lad•
aorld accepted can be underetood in /ons,accidents,marredfurniwre,end under maximum tension and pres,
terms ul the moet excellent econamie high cost of living . It uees lend, all eure,have maintained celm,a sease of
ond biolog!calgood sense .Except fer over the world, that etervationdevel raponeibility, ad the driving will to
tnbacco . pcop!es need for reising food .Haein ech!eve essential to human affair . . . .
The human race-stupid, foolish, the United Stetes we don't have to with the aid of toberoo?
self,deslructive!-displsyed remark. count that problem against tobaeeo ; "Peaoebe with youl" 0 T§eEmron

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which is holden of the wholefomneffe thf rcof ; as',
the venime oE putrifaQiou is comraty to the ver- > ;
tucPreleruatiue . -
Moreouer,which is a great inlquitie,and againft „
: allhumanitie,thchusband(hallnotbrea(hamed, ;
to reducc thereby his dclicate, whulefome, and "a
deane complexioned tvife, to th'at exLremide,that l
either /l:ee mb4 alfa corrupt her fiveete breath `i
therewith, or elfe refoluo to liue in apcrpauall
ftinkingtorment . '
Haueyounotrrafonthentobeeafhamed ; and i~
to forbcarethis filehic noucltie, fo bafely groun•
ded,fofooli0ilyreceiucd,andfogroffely miRaken ',
intherightvfethereof?lnyourabufethercofGn- a
ning agamft God, harming ynur felues both in ''.
perlons and goods, and raking alfo thcrcby the ''
markosand notesof vanitie vponyou ;bythecu•
ftomethcreofmakingyourfeluestobewondered ;{
at by aII forraine ciuil Nations„and by all flrangers
thatcomeamongyo't, robefcornedandcintem• 'i
TWs pmnpolct, pu6(iehed
n unu indiouu, tnai rne ned . A cuftome lothfometotheeye : hatefullto ', ~
,

dnnlimi o/ m6ucco ,Gd

theNofc,harmcfulltothebraine, daungerousto
nt4rnnr ... .. . , rtuawit h theLungs,and inthehlackeltPnkingfumerhete- ' . .
the T,..r ~M cenm,y . ol, neerc(I refentbling the horrible StI- ~ .
lt i, the properly of mr.
kJJn Ilo,rord, of tAe Core
gian fmoke ot the pit that is
Ilmrl. Quronsnnq Lnndm,, bottome:etTa
,d,A rcimsuVermi.vion ve
pu4lirl ,41,Yhotompy .ll i,
mi diePlny ue r,arr u/ ehc
}9mAa,puu,eon ExL14it(m,
o/ elim4ahnn n
curlams, and mzmurnDilia
ut the Corc Rntd
thir eummer .

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EDITORIAL BY W. CAMPBELL
JOHN
It is widely accepted as efact that
the human race is stupid, foolish, and
solLdustructive in its folly .
This widely accepted "fact" mighy
just possibly, be mistaken . A species
thet has succaded in remeining alive
Iram other inhabitants of this planet,
nnt be entirely wlthout sound
scnen'e intellect, on the other hand,
a late comer, and widely given to
stupidity, folly, sel6anertive e
gena, 6nd a conviction that its deci .
dons are, if not directly inspired by

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