Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-01-17
For the JeGersonian Republican.
Tobacco.


and most benevolent motives, wish 10 point out
to The reader the painful and terrible consequences
of using this deadly narcotic, Tobacco.
Do you ask why medde with this matter /
answer the penalties and curses OF natures broken
laws borne about by so many; visible, hrmly, and
deathly stamped upon mind and body, to be en-
dured, and handed down from parent to child, the
innocent, to great degree, as well as the voator
The we'll known and ncontrovertible fact, that the
use of this narcotic. in its various FORMS is pro-
ductive of untold suffering and CRIME, renders it
duty incumbent upon every lover of purity and
happiness to swear eternal hatred, contempt and
dispust against the loaihesome and worse than
beastly practice. So long as user of tobacco
moves in society, so long will all those with whom
he comes in contact, and whose systems not
! likewise tainted with the same poison, be rem
dered to greater or less degree, unhappy and
miserable 81 am candid in saying" says DR..
Wietng, in his lectures on Physiology and nom an
in the world has had better chance TO learn the
fact " that more real evil results from the Of
tobacco, in the United States, than from the use
of spirituous liquors." Where we find one man
using intoxicating liquors we find fifty using to-
bacco
No sane man does or can believe, canddly
that the God Of Heaven ever created man TO use
tobacco There are but three animals known to
use it one, is the tobacco worm, the most loathe-
some, nasty, disgusting creature living another,
Is the African goat, animal whose body, after
death, sends off such horrid, deadly stencil, that
no other animal will come within hundred Yards
OF it; and the other is man.
You who use it, tell me, tell yourself why you
do so
The Chnaman, in his soul and body destroying
practice (usng opium,) has a better apology to
render, than the user Of tobacco
Some say they use it for one purpose, and
some for another.
For what, ask, do you use it Is it to cure
The tooth-ache g as many say. If the nerve Of
a tooth is exposed to action of the external
agents, tobacco, placed in direct contact with the
exposed nerve, will deaden its sensibility-any
other narcotic will do the same.
Some say they smoke, because they believe it
preserves the teeth; and urge as an argument that
the farmer smokes hams to preserve them. Who
ever should attempt TO smoke their hogs while lv-
ing would soon be sent to the Lunatic YUM
Smoking produces unnatural heat in the mouth
and is great cause of decayed teeth. Tobacco
possesses anticeptc properties; and so far, has
no injurious effect, directly, upon the teeth. In
my practice have had all requisite opportunities
TO observe its effects upon all parts of the system
II yitiates all the fluids ofthe mouth all the secre-
tons with which it comes in contact; absorbs or
eats away the gums, keeps them continually sore,
inhamed and irritable; and in many cases, after
a long continuance, extends to the alveolar pro-
cess, aud soon loosens the teeth it causes ulcer
ations and tumors in and about the mouth. Let
merely because in their own case they have not
these results, or because they have
not get brought about these results Too many
examples at hand but, reader if it is neces-
sary that yOu should experience, "a hard school by
the way) persevere in the beaten track.
Some use tobacco to g aid digestion" What /
evet will preserve food from decomposition out OF
the stomach, will in the same proportion retard d.
gestion, when in the stomach And tobacco pos.
sesses this property to great degree; consequent
y, the saliva being impregnated with the smoke /
DR. juice OF tobacco, passes to the stomach, and the .
stomach is now used as preserving pot. 0 hor-
rible And only think, many tobacco chewers /
swallow their dinner with a quid" in the mouth !
Tobacco destroys the exquisite flavor of taste and !
'mel-chewing draws off the fluid intended for .
he stomach; thirst is the result and from these
wo last sources arise depraved appetites; from
iePrayed appetites arise depraved passions and
iepravty of moral action. The functions are de-
anged and their roperations imperfectly performed
No creature, when all the organs are performing
heir natural Offices, will spit. or throw off the Sc
retions Of the mouth Stop, think, 0 man.
Again-many take it for relieving and bunting
IN accute or accusing conscience, whose waters
annot rest" without an antidote. And for this
purpose, Chat is, weakening the powers of mind)
Obacco is sure and speedily effectual Many use
to pass away time" When man, amid the
ares of life and the beauties of nature, can find
10 better way to pass away time, tobacco won't
urt him.
Undoubtedly the principle, or greatest reasons
Why persons tobacco is, because of the stimu-
atng and exhilerating effects; and because of the
reat inclination or desire to have something in
he mouth. The former is the same reason why
he Chinese use opium, and also why the inebri-
te ravenOusly swallows tha