"<p></p> <p>Nicotine is one of the greatest gifts and greatest scourges of modern life: invented by the devil to combat boredom, and there is nothing man can do about it as long as boredom is in the land. It is a strong blood vessel poison, and it makes you dumb. Every time I smoked too many cigarettes in a day to work, the next day I was half-mad and couldn't work. It can also cause anxiety, sweating, palpitations, and other life-threatening complications in our lives. There is nothing you can do about it. Tobacco smoke casts a kind of beneficial haze over the world; it is the common intoxication of the moment, this bitter happiness and forgetfulness - who is strong enough to give it up, or to give it up a moment before it is absolutely necessary? Because one day it is necessary... The heart, the optic nerves, the stomach, the bowels, all rebel against it. Then we throw away the bitter pill, we immediately grow fat, healthy, obese, and unhappy. But until then! As if we were sucking some evil yet blissful ancestral mother's bitter teat all day long! And there must be some play and some poison to live; otherwise, it is only health and exercise, not life.</p>"