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• Answers to the set of questions regarding Opium Consumption and Opium revenue in the Colony of Hong Kong asked by the Royal Commission on Opium are arranged in their numerical order.
(1) Opium is commonly smoked by the Chinese and Malays and eaten in the raw state by the Sikhs.
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(2) About seven per cent of the Chinese population. Four per cent of the Malays and Two per cent of the other Asiatic races. Also about five per cent of the Chinese females and one per cent of the Malays. The children hardly...
(3) Opium smoking does not affect the morality and sociability of the smokers, but it affects the Constitution. There is no distinction on its effects as regards races.
(4) The Chinese and Malays generally smoke it, but the Sikhs mostly eat it in the raw state. I am not aware of people using a decoction of Opium, and cannot make any distinction between smoking, drinking, and eating.
(5) The great majority of opium consumers do not become slaves to the drug, nor even eventually become opium sots; the majority of them are moderate smokers.
(6) It is not correct to say that there cannot be such a thing as moderation in the consumption of Opium. I have known of cases where opium has not worked any injury to the smoker; it generally depends upon the constitutions of the opium smoker.