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We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.

Jesse Torrey (1819). “The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue and Happiness: Being a Compendium of Moral Science, in Four Parts ... : with an Appendix Containing Directions for the Institution of Free Public Libraries, and Reading Societies : Designed for the Use of Families, and the Highest Classes in Common Schools and Academies”, p.186
We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.