Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-01-24

with confined impure and stagnant air. and say 1t
don't hurt you: you have chewn tobacco and spit
away gallons of vital fluid secreted from your
blood for important purposes, and say it don't
hurt you you have smoked tobacco and drawn
the noxious efluvia into the delicate air cells of
the lungs, and say it don't hurt you Whence
come all your aches and pains and all your suf-
/ ferings The great ocean of human corruption
becomes SO filled and oyerfowing, tha, death, on
the wings of the wind, blows terrible gale, and
/ makes general sweep every few years.
! Let US take The case of single one, The wreck
of man his upper extremies and shoulders in
! cline forward his cheeks and chest all caved
in, his breathing is faint, short and quick; his hair
presents dull instead of brilliant appearance !;
the eyes sunken and without expression, and
he feels heavy and deep seated pain back of the
eyes on the sudden approach of light; the counte-
nance is pale and sallow, and makes you think of
'death on pale horse" but It's death on pale
cheek; the muscles generally are very much re.
laxed, and the bones project; there is extreme
arrangement of the nervous system, which mani
tests itself in tremulousness. irratability etful
ness and easy excitement fits of melancholy and
nights, dreams offearful horror, etc. the squalling
of cat makes him think OF the horrors of war,
and the slaming OF door sounds like near by
thunder: in all his actions and sayings he exhib
IFS great weakness, indeCison and uncertainty
he continually anticipates troubles and calanltes:
he is miserable himself and renders his family so,
as far as is in his power. Do you think he knows
tho of ;nfnl
much less does he know the pleasures of health.
But say you tobacco don't cause all this Yes,
indeed it does. From the examples of its power,
given in my article on this subject last week,
would you not suppose it capable of doing it,
II lady sits down to her spinning wheel, and
with her fingers moistens the thread from her
mouth, in a very short time it will make her sick,
and she will be obliged TO quit it. The glands Of
the mouth, six in number, make their secrelions
from the red alerial blood, and this fluid is in all
cases designed to GO down, to answer an important
purpose peculiar to ITSELF and not to 60 up, or be
cast out, for, we have seen, it is casting away
life itself But this tobacco chewer, who in some
instances will use up paper Of tobacco in day,
and smoke half a dozen segars, how much Of this
fluid does he daily throw out I! Then how much
OF the juice OF the tobacco is mixed with the sali-
and the food which he swallows. The food
taken into the stomach is more or less saturated
with this tobacco juice; and hence indigestion,
heart burn, head ache, pains, ETC., are consequent
ces. The nutricious properties taken up from the
aimeniary canal by the lacteal vessels and intro
duced into the blood is more or less tainted with
the tobacco. The lungs call for pure atmosphere;
which has no smell, neither can it be detected by
the unsullied instincts OF our nature. Hence all
combinations scents are deletelious, and unfit
for those delicate ar-ces which serve as instru-
ments for arteriazng the blood. | am aware the
smoker does not calculate to let the smoke 60 any
farther than the mouth, but it goes all through the
lungs, and he can not avoid il: also the chewer
calculates to have il go farther than the mouth
but in the one case the passage from the mouth to
the lungs, aud in the other case, the passage
from the mouth TO the stomach through the ali
mentary canal Till it reaches the blood, is lined
or impregnated with Tobacco; II destroys the pure
pendant upon the quantity.
The flesh and exhalations of animals will par
take Of the nature, taste, and smell of substances
taken into The body through the mouth and nosrils
Cows which partake Of leeks, onions etc. will
emit smell so disagreeabe that other cows from
a pasture OF pure clover and enclosed in yard
together, as is frequently the case, will get their
heads as far possible from the others, and in a
direction from which the wind blows Wild ducks
are frequently rejected by human beings, because
they taste so tShy, being impregnated with the
fish they have eaten. Many more such examples
could be produced but must be brief as possible,
as | am now making these articles tiresome, and !
more lengthy than at first anticipated Suffice it
on this point TO say, that nowhere can we find
this more strongly demonstrated than in the case
of the user OF Tobacco From every part of the
body is sent off the strong perfumes of Tobacco,
communicating the very air he-and others
breathes. And it is absolutely impossible to have
the stomach in healthy tone, and the breath other
wise than foul so long he uses tobacco. Let
man chew and smoke Tobacco and drink liquor, |
then in the mouth with the Tobacco let him have
a lot of "mouderng bones" and we'll might the
poet exclaim
The rocks rend the Earth can quake
and
OF sweetness all things show more sign
Than that most horrd breath OF thine
What, the mouth, through which life every mo-
ment passes, made and kept in so foul condition!