The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-22
A Dish for Tobacco Chewers and
Smokers.

cuts 10 Che DOne at every siaSn Ol lts
knife, contains long and labored ar
ticle upon the use of tobacco. 1t ap-
pears from the Scalpel that the more
fashionable-or rather genteel-use of
tobacco in the form of cigars, is worse
in fact, than chewing, and he who
hatters himself that the habit is harm
less to him, because he does not spit
during the process, is reasoning upon
unsound data. The article is rather
highly seasoned, but no doubt contains
much truth. We make some extracts,
giving appropriate headings:
WHAT TOBACCO is NOT.-Lct us at
tempt to give tobacco its actual position
as an agent amongst the catalogue of
articles we take into our much-abused
mouths. 1t is neither food nor drink
that's clear. Without its use, the
body would demand that its victims
should eat more, or else grow thin by
the ABSORPTION of their fat and muscle
to supply material for combustion for
the lungs are like stove-they must
be supplied with fuel, or the fire will
90 out.
WHAT TOBACCO Is.-What, then,
is tobacco? Why, simply narcotic
4. e. (see the dictionary, ga stupefer
"a deadener of nervous and muscular
energy!' If any man disputes this,
and asserts that he finds himself more
capable of intellectual or muscular
effort, when he has quid in his mouth,
we congratulate him on his improved
astuteness: we may betray our own
want of the precious intellectual quick
er, but we will venture the question,
How much did it sharpen your logic
chopper when you took the first quid ?
And how majestically did you stand
on your legs when you first felt its full
effect?
Every one must remember the first
effect of tobacco. Nausea, yertigo,
counting, and reldrdtion of the entire
muscular system, are its invariable
effects.
TOBACCO INTRODUCES .DRUNKNEss.
Now, the reader will please to re-
member that all the symptoms he first
experiences from tobacco, are the In
variable results upon natural o,
hedlthy condition Of the body. and il
he succeeded, by perseverance in its
use, in overcoming the immediate con-
sequences, it is only because the
alarmed and abused nerves have sum-
moned the force of youthful vigor to
bear the invasion as long as possible
before they capitnlate. Breath, food,
and drink are the means of resisting,
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 con-
tinue to perform his ordinary duties
without showing plainly his incapacity
to stand upon his legs. Thus is to.
bacco, either used by smoking OF
chewing, the direct Introduction to
drunkenness
SMOKING AS BAD AS CHEwING.-Oul
remarks apply in mnch more forcible
manner to smoking than to chewing
Some people are so lilly as to suppose
because they do not spit while smoking
that no harm can ensue; but they
should remember that the oil of tobac.
CO, which contains the deadly NICOTINE,
equally deadly and almost as rapid in
its action as strychnine,) is volatilized,
and circulates with the smoke through
the delicate linging membrane of the
mouth at each Whit of the cigar, and
is absorbed by the extensive continua-
tion of this membrane that lines the
nostrils, and acts upon the whole body.
The smoke of tobacco is indeed much
more rapid in its stupefying effect, as
every professed smoker knows; it is
usually called soothing" by its vota.
ries; but this is, of course, only the
first stages of stupefcation it acts
precisely as opium or other narcotics do
THE Smokers MOUTH NICOTINE
DIsTILLERY.-Nicotine was the awfn
agent chosen by Bocarme for poisoning
his brother-in-law, because IL killed ana
tett no sign whereby to convict him
At each Whit of smoke, it is knowr
that good portion of large drop O
the oil of tobacco circulates through
the mouth; we have often seen i
blown out of the mouth and condensed
on the thumb nail, by men Who hat
the ability to contract the lips to al
opening sufficiently small for that pur
pose. Five drops of the oil of fobacc,
will kill large dog. The throat Otter
; becomes excessively dry and irritable
,, in smokers, and there is morbid thirs
produced that greatly debilitates diges
, ton, by diluting too much the fluids o
,, the stomach--robbed, also, OF it:
healthful saliva by the splitting. ~
WRECKS OF MANHooD.-If we have
used moderate share of intellect and
very extensive observation Alright, We
can find no cause of sufficient power
except tobacco, capable of producing
the wrecks of manhood that oftei
come under our professional notice
The dull and leaden eye, the trembling
hand, and insecure and unmanly step
the vacillating purpose and incapacit,
E to reason correctly on the most simpl,
subjects, are too often seen connected
with the aroma of the deadly weed. a
the victim unfolds in trembling accent
his tale of blighted prospects and chiIlet
affections.
IT AFFECTS THE NEXT GENERAT1oN
; So far are we from doubling its powe
o,,ov tho ,,1oro1.on1 r,bx,c;aa1 xroIf.,,o :,