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Answers to questions reporting opium consumption in a Donghang. Opium is commonly consumed by Chinese in Hong Kong. About 7 percent of the Chinese adult males, I conjecture, consume opium, and about 20 percent of women; children do not.
3.- Although the opium smokers look thin and emaciated, they are not necessarily weakened by the use of the drug.
14.- The Chinese smoke opium; they never eat; nor do they drink a decoction of the drug. The majority of opium consumers are moderate.
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16.- It is not correct to say that there can not be such a thing as moderation in the consumption of opium. Although, I do not know, I have heard the Chinese say that there are many consumers who have taken their opium for years without harm to themselves.
The majority of the Chinese labourers consume opium, and it is said that their efficiency is kept up by the use of opium. The Chinese generally do not condemn the habit of consuming opium as degrading or infamous.