Thousands learn to be drunkards from such influences as these. Too often the lesson has been unconsciously taught them by their own fathers. A radical change must be made in the heads of families before much progress can be made in ridding society of the monster of intemperance.—The Health Reformer, September, 1877. (Te 72.1) MC VC

Tobacco User No Help to Inebriates—As twin evils, tobacco and alcohol go together.—The Review and Herald, July 9, 1901. (Te 72.2) MC VC

Those who use tobacco can make but a poor plea to the liquor inebriate. Two thirds of the drunkards in our land created an appetite for liquor by the use of tobacco.—The Signs of the Times, October 27, 1887. (Te 72.3) MC VC

Tobacco Users in Temperance Work—Tobacco users cannot be acceptable workers in the temperance cause, for there is no consistency in their profession to be temperance men. How can they talk to the man who is destroying reason and life by liquor drinking, when their pockets are filled with tobacco, and they long to be free to chew and smoke and spit all they please? How can they with any degree of consistency plead for moral reforms before boards of health and from temperance platforms while they themselves are under the stimulus of tobacco? If they would have power to influence the people to overcome their love for stimulants, their words must come forth with pure breath and from clean lips.—Testimonies for the Church 5:441. (Te 72.4) MC VC

What power can the tobacco devotee have to stay the progress of intemperance? There must be a revolution upon the subject of tobacco before the ax will be laid at the root of the tree. Tea, coffee, and tobacco, as well as alcoholic drinks, are different degrees in the scale of artificial stimulants.—Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 34. (Te 72.5) MC VC