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themselves of the opium habit.
11. If the supply of Indian opium were cut off,
the Chinese consumers of opium would supply themselves with opium from elsewhere; others
would ...
Altogether.
12. One-sixth of the Colony's
revenue accruing from opium
... extinguished, the Colony
could raise the
needful revenue by far
and Manila lotteries. The Chinese are
in favor of abolishing the opium farm, and establish-
ing
a Wai-shing
and Manila lottery farm in its stead.
13. The Europeans do not contract the opium habit, because
they
do not associate with the Chinese. The Chinese
are more liable to contract the habit, because they
often come into contact with opium smokers.
14. Opium consumers are generally led to use the drug for curiosity's sake. Some of them use it in the first instance to allay physical pain. I know of
my own knowledge that opium is a prophylactic against
headache
and diarrhoea. It is so regarded by the Chinese.
15. Opium consumers do not usually desire to get free
of the opium habit.
16. There is no feeling of hostility amongst the Chinese
in the colony against England for allowing opium to be exported from India.
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