Show Daily Health Service By DR MORRIS The tobacco you smoke may not affect your health in the least but before it reaches you the same tobacco to bacco must go through a long series of purifications not only for your benefit but bul for the benefit of those men and women who work in this industry The modern manufacturer in the tobacco industry protects the worker by jy a number of simple procedures In the first place proper exhaust devices withdraw the poisonous dusts from the air are arc instructed to wash their hands before and after handling handling han dung dung- the tobacco so o as ns not to carry rry around the dusts upon their fingers finers They arc are given iven fairly frequent physical physical cal examinations to determine the presence of changes in their bodies In many plants the wear clean smocks or gowns each day while at work With such oversight over the health of the Itis it itis is is possible in most instances to prevent prevent pre pro vent any permanent damage damace to health Mild tobacco i contains about 1 to 2 per ser cent of nicotine and strong tobacco tobacco to- to bacco jacco from 6 to 10 per cent Workers Work Work- ers in inthe the tobacco industry therefore therefore there there- fore are arc exposed constantly to the danger of contact with this sub substance stance They They- also are exposed to i possible contacts with other substances substances substances sub sub- stances which occur in tobacco and which are ot oL some danger to the human human hu hu- hu man body The people who raise tobacco do donot donot donot not suffer from nicotine poisoning because the nicotine is liberated from th the tobacco only by fermentation The people who sort the tobacco l leaves aves may Inhale the dust and durIng during dur dur- I ing the fermentation of tobacco they breathe Injurious fumes The skin and the mucous membranes memo mem branes of the body when in contact with wet tobacco develop an tion Although workers in connection ti tion n with dusts from flom lime and sane sand ma may develop irritations of the lung and although workers in coal develop develop de de- de black conditions of the lungs there is no evidence that workers with tobacco suffer any more from irom tuberculosis and other diseases of ot the lungs than dp workers in any other trade Those who contract poisoning from tobacco may develop a n sudden form of intoxication with nervous s symptoms symptoms toms pains In the heart disturbances of the bowels and congestion in the brain Sometimes they have an irritation on the back of the hands Sometimes the fin fingernails come off and the edges of or the nails become very thin It It is particularly important that tha the health of the women who work in the tobacco industry be watched because there are serious effects on them especially in association with childbirth Because of the poisons that are present the tobacco industry Is no not safe unless th the conditions of occupation tion are controlled d thoroughly Workers Work Work- ers must be protected against contact contac with tobacco as much as possible Women and young people should be forbidden to work in those sections see sec of the industry where fermentation fermen ferment tation lation is active |