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| | Edison's 1914 Anti-Cigarette Letter, in High School Education 1894 Context |
 | | In fact, a generation earlier, in 1889, children had done letter writing to the Legislature on cigarette effects, as the Legislature's 1889 report on cigarette effects shows. |
 | | Oppressive torpor, weakness or loss of intellect, softening of the brain, paralysis, nervous debility, dyspepsia, functional derangement of the heart, and diseases of the liver and kidneys are not uncommon consequences. |
 | | And, in that still educated era, instead of election campaign "sound bites," multi-hour scholarly level analyses, e.g., Lincon's Peoria-Speech-1854, were conducted. |
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