...another sobering thought:
"and a truly healthy child was never yet sired by a tobacco-saturated father; never will be; never can be; for, in the precise degree to which he yields to his narcotic master, just so far is his WILL paralyzed, - and when a man's will grows shreddy there's not much man about him: his brain is clouded; his solids and fluids deteriorate, and the man is not, cannot be, wholly himself"