"Your Congress should at least pass, as soon as possible, a Federal law completely outlawing the drinking of alcoholic liquor, no matter how moderate, to anyone who has a driver's license for motor cars, buses, aeroplanes, or any other rapidly moving vehicle and make it a crime punishable with strict and heavy penalties. Driver's licenses should be issued by the Federal government only, after a thorough examination. "Tobacco is another avenue where your Octopus gains nearly four billion dollars per year. "If you smoke a pack a day, you inhale 400 milligrams of nicotine a week." Said Dr. J.L. Myers of Kansas City, "Nicotine irritates the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract. Tobacco tar injures those membranes." "Non-smokers, in four years at Yale and at Amherst, grew more in height and weight and lung capacity than did their smoking colleagues." Knute Rockne was definite: "Tobacco slows the reflexes, and any advertising which says it helps an athlete is falsehood and fraud." Habitual smokers have a 50 percent higher incidence of palpitation of the heart than non-smokers. There is evidence that heart disease is more prevalent among smokers than among non-smokers. It is generally agreed that cancer of the mouth, tongue and lips is unduly prevalent among smokers.[29] "Study fire statistics from your fire insurance companies. They will show you that most fires you have are started by smokers. "One of the more sinister activities of the Octopus lies in relation to drugs. "The drug habit, as I understand, has been acquired by many on your earth through your purchase and use of many cheap, unsuspected mild patent medicines, or through your doctor's prescriptions for medical purposes, or through the narcotic drug traffic by your gangsters, with the connivance of some of your unscrupulous politicians. The Octopus's slimy tentacles here surpass themselves. Once the habit takes hold of its victim it is very hard to free him of it, and he becomes enslaved to its use. Unless he gets his daily dose, his overpowering desire and need for it become acute. In that state he will commit any crime to obtain the drug to alleviate his acute hunger. "Some of your doctors, nurses, medicine manufacturers, mostly your gangsters are to blame. Those who, against human decency and law, deliberately induce those tendencies are reprehensible human hyenas. There is nothing so monstrous as the extreme lust and selfishness of some of you who grind out profits through the suffering of your fellow man. Through neglect or by design you turn him into a lifelong addict so that you can live in affluent luxury and security. There is no conscience guilt, compassion, nor pity, in your soul for him and his babies; but inexorable retribution is bound to seek you out and have vengeance against you and yours in your future progeny.