But then, who would venture to call pie-crust a "gorging fiend ?" We must also allow that some persons find their appetite for tobacco grow on them, and they smoke until they are paralysed or ren dered imbecile, so that the worst cases of tobacco are worse than the worst cases of pie-crust. But these are quite exceptional, and, as a rule, we believe that most persons diminish the quantity of tobacco* they take when they find it unwholesome. This is not virtue, but is merely owing to the simple fact that the desire for tobacco gets weaker as age makes the digestion more tender. If two young men at college smoke equally, and then one goes into a sedentary profession, while the other lives in the country and takes constant exer cise, the probability is that at the end of ten years the latter smokes much more than the former. The seden tary man does not care for the tobacco that would do him harm, and the sportsman can stand the tobacco which he likes. And if there is one thing more certain about tobacco than another, it is that, among the upper classes, it discourages drinking ; and probably this is the case generally. The great smoking nations, where people smoke so much more constantly than in Eng land, are eminently sober nations. The effect of good tobacco is certainly not to make the smoker wish to drink. It does not produce thirst, and it spoils the flavour of most liquids. The wish to smoke notoriously abridges the drinking of wine; and many a man takes his two or three glasses and his cigar, who, if he did not smoke, would finish his bottle. Of the effect of to bacco on the poor man we speak with some hesitation, for we do not consider that merely hurrying by poor men as they cluster rouud a public-house enables any one to pronounce on their habits. But we know of no facts which tend to show that tobacco does increase the consumption of alcholic liquors. Certainly the coarse tobacco which the poor smoke would make the palate of a person unaccustomed to it very hot and dry; but the poor are accustomed to it, and that makes all the difference. 