Opium.
1.
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Yes
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2. Most Chinese adult males are consumers. Women and children I do not know
5. The effects
4.
are varied. In some instance beneficial and in others detrimental.
Yes.
consumers generally smoke, some eat it also. 5. "A good proportion are moderate consumers. 6. No. I have the knowledge two persons have abstained altogether from taking opium after consuming the drug for about six years, without harm
The effect of it I do not know
7. Yes.
consumers are
Opium
always quiet and social alcohol consumers are apt to create disturbance. 9. The abuse is the same I think in both.
10. Yes
11.
If the supply of Indian opium be cut off, it would not affect the Chinese consumers, they produce it in their native country or obtain it elsewhere and will not abstain from smoking.
α year.
It would be very difficult for the colony to raise this revenue accruing from opium from any respectable source.
12. About $300,000
for the
13. I do not know
14. Opium consumers use the drug for ... as others drink alcohol. It is also a physic.
15". Not as a rule. some express a wish but seldom endeavour to do it.
16.
No
17.
No