福沢諭吉著「新訂 福翁自伝」（富田正文校訂、岩波文庫、2011年2月4日、第60刷発行）を楽しく読んでいます。
本書91〜93ページの「禁酒から煙草」という章がとても面白いので、全文引用させていただきます。
数年前まで、慶応義塾大学は喫煙に関して非常に寛容でした。喫煙所がたくさんあり、喫煙者にとってはとても快適でした。本書を読み、その理由が理解できたような気がしました。
I am enjoying reading Yukichi Fukuzawa's "Newly Revised Fukuo Autobiography" (edited by Masafumi Tomita, Iwanami Bunko, 60th edition published on February 4, 2011).
The chapter "From Alcohol Abstinence to Smoking" on pages 91-93 of this book is very interesting, so I will quote it in its entirety.
Until a few years ago, Keio University was very tolerant regarding smoking. There were many smoking areas and it was very comfortable for smokers. After reading this book, I felt like I understood why.
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また私は酒のために生涯の大損をして、その損害は今日までも身に付いているというその次第は、緒方の塾に学問修行をしながら、兎角酒を飲んで宜いことは少しもない。これは済まぬことだと思い、あたかも一念ここに発起したように断然酒を止めた。スルト塾中の大評判ではない大笑いで「ヤア福澤が昨日から禁酒した。コリャ面白い、コリャ可笑しい。いつまで続くだろう。迚も十日は持てまい。三日禁酒で明日は飲むに違いない」なんて冷かす者ばかりであるが、私もなかなか強情に辛抱して十日も十五日も飲まずにいると、親友の高橋順益が「君の辛抱はエライ。よくも続く。見上げてやるぞ。ところが凡そ人間の習慣は、仮令い悪いことでも頓（とみ）に禁ずることは宜しくない。到底出来ないことだから。君がいよいよ禁酒と決心したらば、酒の代りに煙草を始めろ。何か一方に楽しみが無くては叶わぬ」と親切らしく言う。ところが私は煙草が大嫌いで、これまでも同塾生の煙草をのむのを散々に悪く言うて「こんか無益な不養生な訳けのわからぬ物をのむ奴の気が知れない。何はさておき臭くて汚なくて堪らん。乃公（おれ）の側ではのんでくれるな」なんて、愛想づかしの悪口を言っていたから、今になって自分が煙草を始めるのは如何もきまりが悪いけれども、高橋の説を聞けばまた無理でもない。「そんならやってみようか」と言ってそろそろ試みると、塾中の者が煙草をくれたり、煙管を貸したり、中にはこれは極く軽い煙草だと言ってわざわざ買って来てくれる者もあるというような騒ぎは、何も本当な深切でも何でもない。実は、私が普段、煙草のことを悪くばかり言っていたものだから、今度は彼奴（あいつ）を喫煙者にしてろろうと、寄って掛って私を愚弄するのは分っているけれども、此方（こっち）は一生懸命禁酒の熱心だから、忌な煙を無理に吹かして、十日も十五日もそろそろ慣らしている中に、臭い辛いものが自然に臭くも辛くもなく、だんだん風味が善くなって来た。凡そ一ヵ月ばかり経って本当の喫煙客（タバコノミ）になった。ところが例の酒だ。何としても忘れられない。卑怯とは知りながら、一寸と一盃やってみると堪らない。モゥー盃、これでおしまいと力んでも、徳利を振ってみて音がすれば我慢が出来ない。とうとう三合の酒をみな飲んでしまって、また翌日は五合飲む。五合三合従前の通りになって、さらば煙草の方はのまぬむかしの通りにしようとしても、これも出来ず、馬鹿々々しいとも何とも訳けが分らない。
迚も叶わぬ禁酒の発心、一カ月の大馬鹿をして酒と煙草と両刀遣いに成り果て、六十余歳の今年に至るまで、酒は自然に禁じたれども煙草は止みそうにもせず、衛生のため自ら作（な）せる損害と申して一言の弁解はありません。
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Also, I lost a lot of my life because of alcohol, and the damage still haunts me to this day.While I was studying at Ogata's cram school, there were few good things about drinking Tokazu sake. Nor.
Thinking that this was something that could not be helped, I decided to stop drinking as if I had made a conscious decision to do so.
Then, the whole school laughed out loud and said, 'Yaa Fukuzawa has stopped drinking since yesterday. That's funny, that's funny. How long will it last? I can't last ten days. I'm sure he'll stop drinking for three days and start drinking tomorrow." Many people are cruel to me, but when I was patient and didn't drink for 10 or 15 days, my best friend Junmasu Takahashi said to me, "I appreciate your patience. However, when it comes to human habits, it is not a good idea to suddenly prohibit them, even if they are bad.It is simply impossible.When you finally decide to stop drinking, start smoking instead of drinking. It won't happen without fun," he says kindly.
However, I hate cigarettes, and have often criticized fellow students who smoked, saying, "This is pointless, ill-healthy, and I don't understand why people smoke things they don't understand. Aside from that, it's smelly and dirty, and I can't stand it. You won't tolerate it when I'm around you." He used to say things like, "No, I don't want you to drink," so I thought it would be embarrassing for me to start smoking now. , it's not unreasonable if you listen to Takahashi's theory.
When I said, "Let's give it a try," people at the cram school gave me cigarettes, lent me their pipes, and some went out of their way to buy cigarettes, saying they were very light. There is also.
There's nothing really serious about all this noise.
In fact, since I usually say bad things about cigarettes, I know that he's going to come over and make fun of me, telling him to turn him into a smoker.
However, since these people are so passionate about quitting drinking, they forced themselves to blow the disgusting smoke, and as they got used to it for 10 or 15 days, the smelly and spicy food became naturally no longer smelly or spicy. The flavor has improved.
After about a month, I became a real smoker.
However, let's talk about sake. I'll never forget it no matter what.
Even though I know it's cowardly, I can't help but try it one inch and one cup at a time.
Moo Sakazuki, even if you insist that this is the end, when you shake the sake bottle and it makes a noise, you can't resist.
In the end, I drank all three cups of sake, and the next day I drank five more.
Even if we try to go back to the traditional five-go-three-go street and say farewell to cigarettes, we can't do it, and it's ridiculous and inexplicable.
My desire to stop drinking never came true, and after a month of stupidity, I ended up drinking, smoking, and using two swords, and now I'm over 60 years old.
Up until this year, when I was 20 years old, I had naturally stopped drinking alcohol, but I had not given up on smoking, and there was no excuse for it, saying that it was damage I had caused myself for the sake of hygiene.
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