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Show NICOTINE. Tho harmful effect of nicotine on tho body and mind of men is in general but slightly understood. The late scientific research, however, has been coming more and more to discern- tho direful effects of it In the uso of cigarettes nnd tobacco upon tho body and touI, until now tho fact Is recognized by tho best thought of tho scientific world. With tho hope that nt least a few users of nicotine may bo led to rid themselves of tho Intensely Injurious hnblt, wo offer tho following quotations from eminent emi-nent men: "Many experiments have been mado with this substance, nicotine, of which there is two to eight per cent contained In nil tobacco. Dr. John A. WIdsoo, quoting from Worm-ley's Worm-ley's Mlcro-Chcmlstry of Poisons, in tho "Era of May, 1904, summaries' h few experiments thnt tiavj been made with this poison as follows: "Tho Intensely poisonous nntttrc of nicotine Is Illustrated by n number of cases bn record. Ono drop placed on the tongue of n cat caused Immediate prostration and death In seventy'-clght seventy'-clght seconds. A smaller drop wits placed on tho tongue of another cat, which resulted In death after two minutes and a half. A third cat to which a similar quantity had been administered was dead after seventy-five seventy-five ncconds. A rami who was accustomed ac-customed to smoking' took a chow of tobacco, and after a qunrter of an hour accidentally swallowed the mas'i An hour later he became unconscious and died. In another caso In which an ounco of tobneco had been swallowed, swal-lowed, death resulted In seven hours. In still another case, one ounce of 1 tobacco was boiled In water, and the solution drunk 11s a remedy for constipation. con-stipation. Tho patient died In three-, quarters of an hour. These, and numerous nu-merous other cases, Illustrate the In. tensoly poisonous nature of tobacco. Tho evil effects of tho repeated usci of small amounts of tobacco, In smoking smok-ing or chowlng, nre also well understood. under-stood. "Dr. N. N. Rlddell, of Chicago, a scientist of wide Influence and author au-thor of several excellent books on what Is good and bad for the mind, body nnd morals of man, in his "Plain Talk to Boys" has this to say: 'If you can trust the testimony of thousands of physicians, tobneco may causo directly or Indirectly, nlmost nil tho diseases from which wo suffer. suf-fer. It is the most frequent cause of tho most loathsome and dangerous diseases. It is estimated that no few cr than fifty thousand dlo annually In tho United States from dlscaso brought on through the use of this poisonous weed. Its Influence is so varied and extensive that wo may meet it in the Inciploncy of dyspepsia dyspep-sia or tho burning pangs of cancer, in tho hilarity of mild stlmules or the delirious ravings of insanity. If disease, di-sease, sickness, nnd denth wore all tho sequences following its use, wo might stop short; but they nrc not. It leads to Intemperance In the use of liquor by creating nn unnatural appetite for stimulants. Most who fall under tho destroying power of tho demon rum began their intern-poranco intern-poranco by tho uso of tobacco. Of tho thousands of unfortunate persons I havo met who havo gone down thru Intemperance, I have never met n drunkard that had not used, habitually, habit-ually, strong ten, coffee or tobacco; nor havo I over mot or heard of a case of delirium tremens without the uso of tobacco. So that years of close observation of tho active and relative rela-tive effects of tobacco and liquor havo fully pursuaded 1110 that no leas than one-half of tho dlscaso, pain, sickness, death, sorrow, misery, poverty, pov-erty, want nnd woo attributed to "strong drink" is tho result of the two poisons combined, nnd thnt stopping stop-ping the uso of tobacco would lessen tho "horrors" or effects of strong drink fully one-ahlf." |