Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-04-12
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK AND AVOID ;
A Guide to Health and Long Life.
BY R. J. cuLvERwELL, NJ. b.

BY R. J. CULvERwELL, NJ. b.
SnufIng and smoking. Medically speaking
they both abominably unwholesome. They
are delightful reaxations. Personally speaking
Ior have been snuffer and smoker) | can
bear witness TO the great comfort and satisfaction
have derived from them. A cigar, during an
evening stroll. is highly agreeable and companion
able, but it is habit only which renders it neces-
sary. 1t is pleasant, | admit (and ladies do like
wise), to catch the Whit of a fine Havana on
a frosty night, or an outdoor walk. Nor do
object entering bachelors crib, where only real
tobacco smoking is going on-but five minutes
stay therein Is enough To those whom smoking
causes TO spit it is productive of great depression
and considerable nervous irritabty; to those who
say they swallow their saliva, it is equally per-
nicious to those who areihsensible to secretion,
II acts locally and its influence is conveyed by the
nervous extIemities 10 the brain. 1t would appear
il-natured aud cynical to foi bid solitary cigar,
but in this page have only to do with its saluta-
riness, cannot speak in its favor. Il have never
suffered from it, may say one Well and good;
do not forbid you taking one, but it surely cannot
be wholesome for those who do. Besides, what
is agreeable it is very difficult to believe be
hurtlul. Nevertheless it may be so; and smok-
ing. in the majority Of instances am convincedis
so. What is the property Of tobacco a-sedative,
s,upefying, creative of vomiting, and if swallowed
| in the form of infusion; poisonous.
Let any man ask himself, after splitting and
putting if he feel better for it The reply general
ly is, oh, it is soothing gives rse to such
| l.
the past-it makes man comfortable even in his
troubles. How happy every one appears with
cigar pipe in his mouth, from the lord to the
basket, woman" A great deal Of this may be true,
but, on the other hand, the great smoker is gener-
ally shaky and nervous, and, like the drnker,
never happy but when engaged in his favor,e pro-
pensiy or what use is he then to anybody, or
even 10 hmselfl None. The little smoker. the
occasional smoke -breather, before he gets through
his first, give him credit for two or three, is left
with dry mouth and nasty taste-a desire to
diink and although some will deny that smoking
provokes drinking, except coffee water, few
can dispense with grog, ale, wine. Other peo
pie it muddles, makes them swimmy, and very
disagreeable to talk TO. Many men smoke twen-
ty or thirty cigars or pipes in day. and young
town buck thinks il derogaory to his buckhood
unless he can Whit away two three. To say
nothing of the nuisance of smoking the habit, cap
iivatng and socializing it may be held to be, is
decidedly bad-very bad for delicate persons
As TO che'Uing, il is expensive habit 1t is so
beaslly one, that there is little fear of an invalid
resortng to il. Ii is equally pernicious, nav, more
SO than smoking. Shutting is sometimes used
incidentally. and with great success. Light stim-
ulauve snuffs are useful in the affections of the
head and eyes, and as gentle refresher have no
objection 10 it; but real snuang, where man
consumes half an ounce daily, and soils half a
dozen pocket-handkerchiefs in the twenty -four
hours-for those sort of snuf1ers awake purposely
at night to take pinck-is; contend very ener-
waiting, very depressing, except at the immediate
moment, and extremely hurtful even to digestion
for, despite all the precaution, the snuff or its
Juice (bah y will get down the gullet. Half a
dozen pinches after dinner are allowable. Young
men should particularly avoid becoming snuffers
a very short indulgence makes them look ten years
older. These habits very easy to acquire, and
very difficult to leave off; but it is not, some
people say, dangerous TO abandon them at the E.
levenlh hour of your life. Mayhap such may
not be necessary, but have known people give
up smoking and snuffng, which they had IT.
duleed in for years, at mement's notice. and
those people have been my patients and they have
soon found reason to thank me for the advice
:, There is joke have heard of great snufei
and smoker, who for some purpose or another gol
married, and, Of course, out of Difference to his
: wife. gave up both his lavorite indugences. lie
pined away, fletted, and went about like shadow
soliciting and receiving the commisseration of his
friends while afterwards he was met by the
narrator (who is supposed to be the retailer OF the
Joe Miller) in high glee with his box in his hand
iaad ilis cigar in his mouth I" Heyday how is
ltbiss- exclaims hi friend. "Ol! my lady smokes
80 But the box %" Oh she snuffs.'' When
ladies do these things throw up my denunciatiou
of the practice The story is in defence of the
Ihabt i, being intended to show that some people,
Having accustomed themselves to bad propensities
lean reinouish them only at the cost OF tranquility
of mind, agseeableness Of manner, and the saeri-