The Opium Smoking Habit in India. Part I. General Survey
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Tobacco smoking is said to have been started in Asia first in the Philippine Islands by the Spaniards and from there it spread to China in the beginning of the seventeenth century. It would appear that in the early days of tobacco smoking various substances were mixed with it either to counteract its unpleasant effects or to strengthen the pleasant ones. Arsenic was one of these substances and opium
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