The Anatomy of Tobacco
"If you smoke cigars you cause expense (to yourself).
If you smoke pipes you cause offence (to others).
But you must smoke one or the other, therefore it is best not to smoke."
And this being the composition of a sophist, who sold it at a great price to a certain Anti-Smoking Association, was confuted as follows by the author of this book in his Disputationes MD Contra Lawsonum:—
"If I smoke pipes I shall please myself.
If I smoke cigars I shall please others.
Therefore it is best to smoke."
And many other ingenious arguments of this kind are there, which I omit, they pertaining rather to the eristical art than the fumifical, properly so called.
And this is all that I shall say on the matter of pipes.
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