| Show TOBACCO looking over my notes accumulated during rambles in america and europe I 1 find the following valuable discovery made by a celebrated physician of great britian which may prove a voice of warning to some young men M f utah who are being thoughtlessly led into a bad habit by the examples set before them by many of the new comers as well as aa the older residents of utah with the earnest hope that at least a few of the intelligent lads ads of utah may take the warning and cease the evil habit of the use of tobacco I 1 pen the following scrap A certain doctor struck with the large number of buys boys under fifteen years of age whom he observed smoking was led to inquire into the effect which the habit had upon the general health he took tor for this purpose thirty eight persons aged from nine to fifteen and carefully examined them in twenty seven of these he discovered injuries injun us traces of the habit in twenty two there were various dis order circulation and digestion palpitation of the heart and a taste more or hes it as for strong drink in twelve there were frequent bleedings of the nose ten bad disturbed sleep and twelve slight ulceration ulcer atlon of the mucous membrane which disappeared no the use of tobacco ceasing for some days the doctor treated them all for weakness but with little effect U until stu the smoking was waa discontinued when fc health and strength were soon goon re stored now this is in no old wife cifes tale an fw fn the foregoing facts are given und under good authority quite recently while at logan tern v pie I 1 met a brother and his hia wife from utah county utah wb waft thanked me for kind words on them the subject of the word of wisdom on found in the book of doctrine and covenants sec 89 p verse and again tobacco to is not for t the body neither for the belly and jg Is g not good for man but is an herb herb for brulio and all sick cattle to be used with judgment and skill 11 verse 18 and all saints who remember to keep and do these sayings saying walking in obedience I 1 to the commandments shall receive j health in their navel davel and marrow tia tn w their bones 12 the gentleman from santaquin San I 1 have forgotten and here make the re qui qu st ft that if this meets his observation he will communicate the particulars to my address 8 first west streak atrol salt lake city utah in his thank chanka he remarked that the lecture sit at banta quin twenty two years ago on the sub eject of the bad habit of using struck him so forcibly that when he returned home from the he resolved before his hia cifes wife that by the help of bod god he would quit the filthy s habit os AS one of the mistakes of hilt hia boyhood days he atao also said that though so attached to the long use of the weed he was enable I 1 to ke keena his big resolution and that his health 3 appetite and nd spirits were ever so go much improvably improved by the small sacrifice maddt N while in mexico last may at ta the hotel the proprietor joffere me out of compliment a cigar this thlin t refused saying that I 1 was either fortunate or fortunate in not smoking very fortunate sir air was the reply tito the hotel clerk informed me that UW the proprietor hadin times of deep thought am smoked aked two ounces of cigarettes betori letting up I 1 saw the latter watt ing with his bis staff a corpulent and broken down though compit comparatively rati VOW young man the southern states is one of the worst places I 1 ever came across for I 1 in 1 1 vet erate users of tobacco oboth both mea imea v and women but I 1 am constrained te 16 believe that mexico takes taken the lead la in the tobacco line EDWARD SALT LAKE CITY august 15 1892 |
