M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-01-22
Tobacco Chewing and smoking.

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bitual users of the "weed is served
up in the Scalpel.
WHAT TOBACCO IS NOT.
Let us attempt to give tobacco its
actual position as an agent amongst
the catalogue Of articles we take into
your much abused mouths, 1t is mel.
lther food nor drink, that's clear
Without its use, the body would de,
mand that its victims should eat more
or else grow thin by the absorption o.
tier fat Or muscle to supply material
Tor combustion; for the lungs are like
a stoEe--they must be supplied will
fuel or the fire will go out.
WHAT TOBACCO IS.
What, then, is tobacco? Why, sim
ply a narcotic-i. G. (see the diction-
ary,) a "stupefer-a deadener of ner-
vous and muscular energy /" If any
man dispute this, and assert that he
finds himself more capable of intel
lectual Or muscular effort when he has
a quid in his mouth, we congratulate
him on his improved astuteness. We
may betray our own want of the pre-
cious intellectual quickener, but we
will venture the question, How much
|. did it sharpenyour logic chopper when
You took the first quid9 And how
majestically did you stand on your
legs when you first felt its full efect9
Every one must remember the first ef-
feet of tobacco. Nausea, yertigO, 90
miting, and rela@atiOn Of tile entire
muscular system, are its invariable
effects.
TOBACCO INTRODUCES DRUNKENNESS.
Now the reader will please remem-
ber that all the symptoms, as he first
experiences them from tobacco, are
the invariable results upon a natural
or healthy condition Of the body ;
and if he succeed, by perseverance in
its use, in overcoming the immediate
consequences, it is only because the
alarmed and abused nerves have sum-
moned the forces of youthful vigor to
bear the invasion as long as possible
before they capitulate. Breath, food
and drink are the means Of resistance,
and the besotted youth soon discovers
that the quantity Of the latter must be
Increased and its quality strengthened
if he would resist the invader and
continue to perform his ordinary, du-
ties without showing plainly his inca
pacity to stand upon his legs. Thus
it is that tobacco, either used by smo-
king or chewing, IS tile direct intro
ductiOn Of d17tnkeneSS.
SMOKING AS BAD AS CHEWING.
Our remarks apply in a much more
forcibl6 manner to smoking than to
chewing. Some people are so silly as
to suppose, because they do not spit
while smoking, that no harm can en-
sue; but they should remember that
the oil of the tobacco, which contains
the deadly nicotiae, equally deadly
and almost as rapid in its action as
strychnine,) is volatilized and circu-
lates with the smoke through the del
icate lining membrane of the mouth,
at each whitf Of the cigar, and is alb
sorbed by the extensive continuation
of this membrane that lines the nos
trils and acts upon the whole body
The smoke of tobacco is much more
rapid in its supplying effect, as every
professed smoker knows; it is usually
called "soothingn by its votaries; but
this is of course, only the first stage
of stupefaction; iC acts precisely as
opium or other narcotics do.
THE SMOKERS MOUTH A NICOTINE DIsTILLERY.
Nicotine was the awful agent cho-
sen by Bocarme for poisoning his bro
ther-in n-law, because 1t killed and left
no sign whereby to convict him. At
each whiff of smoke it is known that
a good portion Of a large drop of the
oil OF tobacco circulates through the
mouth: we have often seen it blown
out and condensed on the thumb nail,
by men who had the ability to con-
tract the lips to an opening sufficient
ly small for that purpose. Five drops
of the oil of tobacco will kill a large
dog. The throat often becomes exces-
sively dry and irritable in smokers,
and there is a morbid thirst produced
that greatly debilitates digestion, by
diluting too much of the fluids of the
stomach-robbed also Of its healthful
saliva by the splitting.
WRECKS OF MANHOOD.
If we have used a moderate share
of intellect and very extensive obser-
vation Alright, we find no cause of suf'
fcient power, except tobacco, capable
of producing the wrecks of manhood
that often come under our profession.
al observation. The dull and leader
eye, the trembling hand and insecure
and unmanly step, the vascillatine
purpose and incapacity to reason cor.
rectly on the most simple subjects, are
too often seen connected with the aro'
ma of the deadly weed, as the victim
unfolds in trembling accents his tale