Project Gutenberg 2013-08-15 Public domain in the USA. 161 Parton, James 1822 1891 09034770 Smoking and Drinking Does it pay to smoke? -- Will the coming man drink wine? Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Smoking and Drinking" by James Parton is a critical examination of the habits of smoking and drinking, written in the late 19th century. The work addresses the physical and moral implications of these vices, arguing that they have detrimental effects on health, society, and individual character. Parton not only discusses the impact of these indulgences but also highlights their role in encouraging dependency and a decline in overall vitality. The opening of the text serves as a preamble to Parton's discourse, setting a reflective tone on the advancement of society and the concerning decline in health amidst material welfare. He suggests that, with the rise of modern conveniences and wealth, people have become increasingly reliant on harmful habits such as smoking and drinking. Parton laments that these practices serve as both effects and causes of a broader societal malaise, leading to a deterioration in the vitality and moral fabric of the population. Through personal anecdotes and rhetorical questioning, he engages readers to ponder the necessity of self-control and virtue in overcoming these destructive habits. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/43480/43480-h/images/cover.jpg en Temperance Smoking Alcoholism -- Hospitals RC Text Browsing: Drugs/Alcohol/Pharmacology Browsing: Health & Medicine 254510 254402 2024-09-18T09:15:50.289801 2023-09-19T05:20:45.971845 text/html text/html 250420 2013-08-15T10:09:18 text/html; charset=utf-8 119292 2013-08-15T10:09:18 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 120937 2024-09-18T09:15:53.731776 application/epub+zip 122719 2024-09-18T09:15:50.897784 application/epub+zip 114631 2024-09-18T09:15:50.614785 application/epub+zip 190028 2024-09-18T09:15:56.174771 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 176084 2024-09-18T09:15:53.453803 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 168357 2022-09-19T19:46:02.820137 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 243317 243128 2024-09-18T09:15:49.921806 2023-09-19T05:20:45.640847 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 243129 2013-08-15T10:09:18 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 95217 2013-08-15T10:09:18 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 243122 2013-08-15T10:09:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 95177 2013-08-15T10:09:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20681 2024-09-18T09:15:56.324751 application/rdf+xml 5475 2024-09-18T09:15:50.682786 image/jpeg 1367 2024-09-18T09:15:50.648781 image/jpeg 131772 2024-09-18T09:15:50.316796 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia