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Opium eaters mostly eat raw opium in small pills while a few take it in other manners. Consumption of boiled opium has been preferred to that of raw opium, and it conduces to health as well as brings agility in business.
(5.) Consumers of Opium are subjected to this drug, but it does not stupefy them. Chinese generally use it, but we cannot mention any instance of such a stupefication among them. Majority of these consumers are moderate.
(6.) There has been no excess among consumers in using opium. They have been consuming opium for years past, but there has been hardly any case, in our notice, of a noticeable injury done to them.
(7.) Traders, coming in contact with us, have been found very apt and considerate in making business with us, though they have consumed opium before this. Labourers and workers consume opium in proportion to their income, but it has had no ill effect upon them during their working hours.
(8.) As regards the use and abuse of opium and alcohol, we saw that...