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DAVID SASSOON, SONS & CO.

Part 19 (F: S4 Hongkong, 11th December

177 1544 1893

Answers to the questions put by the Royal Commission on Opium regarding Opium Consumption & Opium revenue in the Colony, of Hong Kong.

1. Yes.

2. Chinese about 60%. About 20% of the women in China are consumers, but in Hongkong they are not, as a rule, habitual consumers of the drug.

3. Children do not smoke.

As far as I have been enabled to observe, opium does not demoralize the consumer. Physically, a moderate Opium smoker is in about the same condition as those who do not consume the drug. Socially, he is not thought less of by his friends & acquaintances, from the fact that it is used in all stations in Chinese life. As an Englishman or European would offer liquor to his guest, a Chinaman invites his to join him in a pipe of opium.

4. Neither in this Colony nor in China is Opium eaten by the Chinese; it is smoked. An inveterate ...

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2956 DAVID SASSOON, SONS & CO. Part 19 (F: S4 Hongkong, 11th December 177 1544 1893 Answers to the questions put by the Royal Commission on Opium regarding Opium Consumption & Opium revenue in the Colony, of Hong Kong. 1. Yes. 2. Chinese about 60%. About 20% of the women in China are consumers, but in Hongkong they are not, as a rule, habitual consumers of the drug. 3. Children do not smoke. As far as I have been enabled to observe, opium does not demoralize the consumer. Physically, a moderate Opium smoker is in about the same condition as those who do not consume the drug. Socially, he is not thought less of by his friends & acquaintances, from the fact that it is used in all stations in Chinese life. As an Englishman or European would offer liquor to his guest, a Chinaman invites his to join him in a pipe of opium. 4. Neither in this Colony nor in China is Opium eaten by the Chinese; it is smoked. An inveterate ...
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DAVID SASSOON, SONS & CO.

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Part 19 (F: S4 Hongkong, 11th December

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1893

Answers to the questions put by the Royal Commission on Opium regarding Opium

Consumption & Opium revenue in the Colony, of Hong Kong.

Yes. -

2. Chinus about 60%. _ about 20% of the women.

in China are consumers, but in Hougtong they are not, as a rule, habitual consumers of the drug.-

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Childrew de not smoke. -

as far as I have been enabled to observe, opuime does not demoralize the Consumer. -

the consumer. - Physically,

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