I know of many Chinese who have been consumers of the drug for years and who apparently show no signs of the drug having had any evil effects on them. I know also of a case where a person (not a Chinese) who has both smoked and eaten the drug for the last ten years and who has not apparently suffered physically.
7. Many Chinese cabaret merchants and artisans smoke opium. The habit does not affect their efficiency in the majority of them in their usual calling.
8. An opium smoker is quiet in his habit, whereas one addicted to the use or abuse of alcohol, especially among the Malays and natives of the Philippines, is often unruly and commits rash deeds.
9. No. They would consider the alcohol habit degrading and injurious.
10. Yes. They would procure it from elsewhere. They would not take to alcohol nor to any other narcotic; neither would they abstain altogether.
11. China has been and is still growing opium, which statistics will show has been on the increase during the past few years, and the stoppage...