Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-06-24

lne 1OllOHlug luTHfSncO "
for 40 wears. gives 1887 oC
10 cts. per day for 40 years gives 3OI4 "
IS cts per day Tor 40 years gives 46ll OC
5 cis. per day, at compound interest, for
soyears gives 2.s25 4a
10 cts per day for 40 years gives go Sc
Is cts per day for 40 year, gives Si73 .
Many q man pays more for tobacco than
fer -four for all the family. once knew a
young man whese board and tobacco bills
were Just even, Many mechanic will die,
and leave his family without a cent, who
pays more fo- this than the cost of a life in
surance of two thousand dollars"
Farther on this article he has the follow
ing:
IAN estimate Of the amount OF money
annually spent iu Delphi for tobacco and
cigars has been recently made, and the fig
mes are astounding. Sirteen stores and gro
ceries annually sell $500 worth! And
one uhelesale cigar establishment and Seu-
eral groceries are lef. out of the count; SC
it is safe TO say that, at the least calculation
the sum of So 1000 is annually expended in
Delphi for tobacco and cigars! Reckoning
the inhabitants at 1900, it is more than
three dollars for every man, woman, and
child in the town! In ten years we spend
$4,000; in twenty years, $4,000; in 80
years. S210 600; in forty years, S2Se,O00,
and all for cigars and tobacco! Readers
can reckon up what those several sums
would amount to at simple and compound
interest, for ten, twenty, thirty, and forty
years, at their leisure
One more extract must suffice:
aft costsmore than education or religion
the army or navy. 1t costs Eng land and
America a sum sufficient to support 30 ,00e
ministers with salary of $1,000; or more
than 100, ,Oo9 missionaries. The students
in one college pay more than $4,000 for
cigars yearly. 1t tends to illness, poverty
strong drink. and the whole family of vices.
1t tends to debility, dyspepsy, palsy, can
GERS, insanity, delirium tremens, and sud
den ceaths. 1t weaves a winding sheet
around 90 900 in our land every year.
Tobacco is not only expensive, it is poi
sonous also. DR.. Mdzzy says that two drops
of the oil of tobacco will kill full-grown
cat IN two minutes. Rev. DR.. Baldwin says
that:
"Tn the United States intelligent physi.
clans have estimated that 90 900 die every
year, from the use Of tobacco; and in Ger
many, where the streets, as we'll as the
houses, are literally befogged with tobacco
smoke, the physicians have calculated that
of all the deaths which occur between the
ages of eighteen and thirty five, one-hag Or
iginate in the waste Of the constitution by
smoking! Tobacco exhausts and eeranges
the nervous powers, and produces a long
train OF nervous diseases. Il is peculiarly
calculated to produce diseases to which the
stomach is liable; and especially those
forms which 90 under the name of dyspepsy
with all their kindred train of evils. Ii also
exerts disastrous influence upon the mind
and frequently produces an enfeebling o.
the memory, a confusion of ideas, irritabil'
hy of temper, want of energy and stead
mess of purpose, melancholy, and some
times insanity. These are the ultima tie Ell
fects of the use of tobacco; and though one
may not perceive them in his own case, we
are assured that the tendency of the drug
is,always towards disease"
The use of tobacco leads to intemper
apee:
IA desire is excited" says DR.. Rush.
'.by tobacco, for strong drinks, and these
lead to intemperance and drunkenness. -
DIR. Stephenson says: "Chewing and smo
king tobacco exhaust the salvary glands o
their secretions, thus producing dryness an'
thirst; hence it is that, after the use of the
cigar and the qud, brandy, whisky or some
other spirit is called for" DR.. woodward
says: u have supposed that tobacco wal
the most ready and common stePPing-ston'
to thet use of spurious liquors which lead
10 intemperance.' DR.. Muzzy adds: al
the habit of smoking there is no small dan
ger. 1t pr oduces huskiness of the moutl
which calls for some liquid; hence the kin
dred habits of smoking and drinking"