The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1854-03-02

iurnlsned, Tue attenuant or passenger Is
in constant danger of having his clothes
besmcared with the vile nuisance"
The expense of Tobacco using is not
small item. "In Havana, Cuba, it is
estimated that $40, 900 worth of cigars
are smoked daily. From computation
made upon authentic data, it appears
that not less than 81 100000 are an
nually expended on cigars in the city of
New York. According to the estimate
made by the Rev. Mr.. Fowler in 1885,
$lO,OOO,oOo were squandered in that
year on tobacco by tho people of the
United States Since that time the ex-
penditure has increased nearly fifty per
cent
"The tobacco crop of the United
State in 1850 was very nearly 200, ,OoO,-
900 pounds. And if we take into ac-
count the waste of land and labor in
raising it; the expense attending its
manufacture and traffic, with the loss of
time occupied in chewing and smoking
it, and the consequent idleness and indo-
lence it begets, $780, 100000 would be
a low estimate of the present annual
loss to the nation sum sufficient to
provide every district of our country
with free school, every hamlet with
free church, and every pauper with
free home.
"In 1910, 100000 persons-one
tenth Of the entire population of the
United States-were engaged in raising
and manufacturing Tobacco. The pre-
sent number so mis-employcd cannot be
less than 100000; for in a single
small city, Richmond, Va, there are
about fifty tobacco manufactures /; and
the culture of the article has-to the
shame of New England farmers be it
said-lately extended rapidly in the
Northern and Eastern States, and is now
constantly increasing, bccause-to the
double disgrace of the people Of New
England-of the mercenary and inhu-
man reason, that crop CT Tobacco is
more profitable than a crop of grain.
Our Christian people find it a better
money-making business to raise poison
to pamper the vitiated appetites, brutal
ize the nature, and destroy the lives of
, their fellow creatures, than to cultivate
= food
"In order to increase the weight or
piquancy of tobacco, it is often adultera-
ted with molasses, sugar, licorice,
! honey, bran, moss, beech leaves, rhu-
barb, cayenne pepper, sproutings of
malt, beet-root dregs, resin, lime, sand,
: powdered glass, terra-japonica, yellow
! ochre, red lead, common salt, saltpetre,
G sal-ammoniac and pearlashcs." A beau
tiful list of articles, truly, for human
being to take into his system.
The physiological and pathological
l effects of to. acco on the system is well
| known, though perhaps not always ad.
: mitted, by the habitual user thereof
n "In small doses, Tobacco causes heal
e or burning in the throat, a sensation o
e warmth in the stomach, followed by
d nausea and giddiness In large doses, i
5, produces rctching, vomiting, and purg
G ing, and most distressing sinking feel
:. ing at the pit of the stomach, followed
$ by languor, relaxation of the muscula
IS system, trembling of limbs, extreme
h anxiety, and great tendency to faint
Of vision is obscured, the ideas ale con
of fused, the pulse is small and weak, tn
l. respiration laborious, the surface col
h. and clammy, or bathed in a cold sweat
N and sometimes convulsions occur. i
nc very large doses all of these symptom
gs are manifested with more violence, an
lc are followed by paralysis and stupo'
H. terminating in death.
IS, "The general effects arc manifesto
IL very similarly, whether the article
Ily chewed, smoked, or snuffed. In th
nd form of snuff, small portions occasion a
X increased flow of mucus, sneezing, an
n an acrid and burning sensation in ii