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RARE. ESTCm locates only one copy in England at the John Rylands Library. Deals with snuff taking, tobacco smoking and tobacco chewing, both as a cause of disease leading to cancers and tumours, and source of anti-social behaviour. "Another particular I cannot avoid animadverting upon ... is the great indelicacy of continually blowing this powder out of the nostrils, together with a quantity of humour disagreeably tinctured with it, and this not only about the person's own face and cloaths who uses it, but even frequently in the faces of such as may happen to be placed near him; having every ten minutes recourse to the handkerchief, the flag of abomination, as Dr. Smollet, I remember, justly and humorously styles it, when describing the customs of the French."