Project Gutenberg 2013-08-15 Public domain in the USA. 389 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 Reading ease score: 63.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Temperance Smoking Alcoholism -- Hospitals RC Text Browsing: Drugs/Alcohol/Pharmacology Browsing: Health & Medicine Category: Health & Medicine Category: Drugs/Alcohol/Pharmacology 254680 2025-06-17T14:26:03.622420 text/html 250420 2013-08-15T10:09:18 text/html; charset=utf-8 121168 2025-06-17T14:26:07.291444 application/epub+zip 122704 2025-06-17T14:26:04.355431 application/epub+zip 114623 2025-06-17T14:26:03.949428 application/epub+zip 189922 2025-06-17T14:26:09.843442 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 176070 2025-06-17T14:26:06.974406 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 168357 2022-09-19T19:46:02.820137 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 243128 2023-09-19T05:20:45.640847 text/plain 16072 2025-06-17T14:26:09.997393 application/rdf+xml 5475 2025-06-17T14:26:04.037420 image/jpeg 1367 2025-06-17T14:26:03.988448 image/jpeg 131813 2025-06-17T14:26:03.650425 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia