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QUESTIONS
COM
ION ON OPIUM.
Enclosure mirto.
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17080 RECE (Ref 9 NOT 33)
REGARDING OPIUM CONSUMPTION AND
REVENUE IN THE COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES:
SINGAPORE, PENANG, AND HONG KONG.
OPIUM
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the most intelligent and trustworthy
officials, medical men, merchants
are specially conversant with the subject.
Is opium commonly consumed by people of Chinese, Malay, or other Asiatic race in your Colony?
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What proportion of adult males of each race are consumers? Do women consume opium to any extent? Do children?
What have you observed to be the effects, moral, physical, and social, on its consumers? Are the effects the same on consumers of each race; do you draw distinctions between the effects on consumers of different races?
Do consumers chiefly smoke, or do they eat, or do they drink a decoction of opium? If opium is taken in two or all of these forms, can you distinguish between the effects of each?
Do the great majority of opium consumers become slaves to the drug and eventually die from opium consumption, or do you find the majority, or a considerable proportion, of consumers to be moderate consumers?
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Is it correct to say that there cannot be such a thing as moderate opium consumption?