| Show SMOKING on the subject of the use uee of tobacco H H mcdonald of san francisco publishes the following la in interesting lea leaflets fiets smoking chewing and snuffing are the chief ways of using tobacco but smoking is 19 the most prevalent mod mode and by far the most hurtful of all tobacco smoke sends its poison into the lungs through the breath andi poisons the blood of the smoker I 1 it t lei ig like breathing poisoned air and the system feels it immediately Sa smoking boking tobacco weakens the nerv 1 ous power favors a dreamy and imbe die cile state of mind sinking its victim viettia into a state of maudlin inactivity and i self enjoyment of his bis vice the smoke cannot escape the poison of tobacco it gets into his bis blood and affects ev every ery organ and fibre fabre of his hia f frame ra m e in consequence excessive smoking long persisted in is injurious in the highest degree and the pernicious practice if begun early in life ig enough to sap the strength of mind and body A simple proof of the poisonous properties of tobacco smoke is that it if frogs or birds tire are confined in it tay will die from its effects in a short time reliable physicians assert that mounil young infants have been killed in the same manner by ignorant parents burning burnt og tobacco does not destroy its poisons instead it helps bring then them out and distribute them where they will do the most harm i tobacco smoke is composed chiefly of I 1 nicotine carbonic acid ac at id ld carbonic oxide and ammonia gases and carbon or nicotine is a powerful poison carbonic acid tends to produce drowsiness and headache carbonic oxide causes a tremulous movement of the muscles alo al 0 of the heart ammonia excite s the salivary glands and makes the mouth throat and tongue hot and dry nicotine lowers the circulation quickens the breathing weakens the heart and muscles and is exhausting to the vital forces it would kill boys and men when they first fint begin to smoke except that it ie sets acts as an emetic and the stomach becomes inured to it the effects of tobacco are similar to those of opium both soothe the nervous system at tir nr t but render reder it more feeble and irritable it in time and bequir I 1 ing ng the temporary quiet of the cigar pr r pipe it therefore helps deaden tao the smoker am Is feelings and he goes on injuring his health until he be is in beyond h hope of recovery tobacco does not affect every one in precisely the same way as it arts 1118 moat strongly on the weakest organs of the body one victim may become blind or nearly dearly so another deaf a third nave tumors or cancer a fourth have heart disease die eese and a fifth may suddenly become helpless or die of paralysis the whole nervous system gets ou out of order sleep is broken the will power and the memory lost or aou weak eDed resu biting in softening of the brat brain or insanity J or dr james C jackson who had treated many thou thousands sandis of cases baues of tobacco poisoning says there is no babi of the america i people so destructive destruct i v to their physical vigor and thel their mo character as the use of tobacco twenty thousand men and boys boya die each year in the united Stat states eafrom from the of tobacco and all who smoke are injured in a greater or less leas degree of those who are injured moderately we never hear slid and in most moat oases cameo the sufferers do not know the cause of their sleeplessness lose of appetite or general feeling of worthlessness yet it to is without doubt the reason why so many MADY promising boys boya make very ordinary men it takes the keen edge from their minds mind it robs them of ambition of push in short of the energy necessary necee eary to success in life dr humphrey says sayo tobacco is a narcotic plant which no brute will eat which affords no nutriment which every healthy stomach loathes till cruelly drugged into it stupefies fies the brain shatters the nerves destroys the coats coate of the stomach creat 11 an insatiable thirst for onto lants and prepares the system for fatal disease dr justin edwards decla declarer declared rei not much can be done in ii behalf of the temperance Pl arance cause until there is an an ti narcotic movement particularly against tobacco the ally of intemperance |
