173
Sable II.
Adult Females.
(a) Those who have never smoked opium 40 per cent
(b) those who smoke very occasionally 15
(c) those who smoke frequently 10
(d) Confirmed smokers 5
Total 100
Table M
Children (males only)
(including all under 17 years of age)
(a) those who have never smoked opium 85 per cent
(b) those who smoke very occasionally 10
(c) those who smoke frequently 5
(d) Confirmed smokers (There are cases known but rare) rare
Total 100
The moral effects of opium on its consumers are distinct and unmistakable. The smokers may hide the degrading effects from casual observers, and they often succeed in deceiving their European employers and friends, but in their homes, their kith and kin, personal friends and acquaintances, their degradation is only too painfully apparent. The habit of opium smoking has undoubtedly the sad but decided effect of lowering the moral standard of its votaries. It leads frequently to great meanness, untruthfulness, treachery, fraud and deception, theft and robbery. Its victims are mostly helpless and unreliable, shameless and devoid of honour and conscience.
It must be noted, however, that the degradation though certain is very gradual.
The physical effects are as well marked as the moral. At first there are only occasional giddiness, headache, nausea and constipation, followed by loss of appetite and then emaciation. The smoker becomes wakeful at night and sleeps the greater part of the morning, generally rising at noon or later. He loses his energy and keenness, becoming nervous, lazy and untidy. His intellect soon gets cloudy and dull, retaining however sufficient low cunning to carry out all sorts of mean tricks and dishonest practices. His skin is dry and sallow, his lips bluish, his cheeks and eyes sunken, his temples hollowed and his manly strength is gone. After long continued use of the drug, he finally becomes more than a "living skeleton", or in the meantime, some organic disease has not seized his already depressed and debilitated body and carried him off.
From the two preceding paragraphs, the social effects may well be inferred without more words. To live and associate with persons of such stamp and with such an evil habit upon him, is the greatest living misery. Only those who have the misfortune of having dear friends and near relations given over to such a habit, can fully realize the deep sorrows and hopeless miseries occasioned by it.
173
Sable II.
Adult Females.
(a) Those who have never smoked opium 40 per cent
b) those who smoke very vecasionally (c) those who smoke frequently
(d) Confirmed smokers
15
J
10
5
Total
100
Table M
Children (malesonly)
77
I including all under of years of age) (a) those who have never smoked opium 85 per cent b) those who smoke
very occasionally
(c) those who smoke frequently
(d) Confirmed smokers
(There are cases known but rare)
10
5
rare
Total
100
The moral effects of opium on its consum-
among
ers are distinct and unmistakable. The smokers. may hide the degrading effects from Casual ob- servers, and they often succeed in deceiving their Curopean employers and friends, but in t their homes, their kith and kin, personal friends and acquaintances, their degradation
only too painfully apparent. The habit of opium smoking has undoubtedly the sad but decided effect of lowering the moral # standard of its votaries. It leads frequently
meanness, untruthfulness, treachery.
nd robbery. mostly helpless and unreli-.
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to great
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The physical effect
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are as well marked as the moral. At first there are only sional giddiness, head ache, nausea and constipation, followed by loss of appetite and then emaciation. The smoker becomes wake- ful at night and sleeps the greater part of the morning, generally rising at noon or later. He loses his energy and keenness, becoming nervous, lazy and untidy. His intellect soon gels aloudy and dull, retaining however suf- ficient low cunning to carry out all sort of mean tricks and dishonest practice His skin is dry and sallow, his lips bluish, his cheeks eyes sunken, his temples hollowed and and his manly strength is gone. After long of the drug, he finally becomes more than a "living skeleton, of in the meantime, some organic disease has not seiz.- ed his already depressed and delapidated. body and carried him off.
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From the two preceeding paragraphs, the social effects may well be inferred without s more words. To live and associate with persons of such stamp and with such an evil habit upon him, is the greatest living misery. Only those who have the misfortune of having dear friends and near relations given over to such a habit, can.
fully realize the deep porrows and hopeless miseries occasioned by
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