The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-07-22

The medical treatment most effective
in these cases, proves conviasively that
it is to the debilitating and exhausting
influence of tobacco, that these sad
consequences are due. How, indeed,
could it be that an agent OF such uni
versatility of action on the nervous and
muscular systems-one that at first
invariably produces vertigo and blind
ness, and throws its victim PROSTATE
on the earth in temporary death, should
not reach its climax in the role of its
peculiar power, in that mysterious sys-
tenn where nature has chosen to evolve
redundant life.
A PERFUMED BEEATH.-One would
think that man, more especially a
young mans natural instincts would
awaken him to the discovery that some
horrid vampire was tanning him from
mental sleep to physical death; he has
before him every day the bright eye,
the elastic step, and the 1.-THE limbs of
his companions he sees, but seems
not to understand, the quickly averted
eye, the expressive and scornful face of
insulted woman, as she refuses to take
his offered but defled seat in the omni-
bus or rail-car he permits her to open
the window and expose her health to
the chill air, to get little air untainted
with the loathsome aroma of his foul
breath; he is refused. employment at
many gentlemanly occupations by most
sagacious men, and yet he persists in
debasing himself; he must have his
"rarcc tic" his "stupifier."
IT SpOILs THE SHAPE OF THE MoUTH.
Both smoking and chewing also pro-
duce marked alterations in the most
expressive features of the face. The
lips are closed by powerful circular
muscle, which completely surrounds
them and forms their pulpy fullness.
Now every muscle of the body is de-
veloped in precise ratio with its use, as
most young men know-they endeavor
to develop and increase their muscle
in the gymnasium. In splitting, and
holding the cigar in the mouth, this
muscle is in constant use hence the
coarse appearance and irregular devel-
opment of the lips, when compared to
the rest of the features, in chewers and
smokers. The eye loses its natural
fire, and becomes dull and lurid; it is
unspeculative and unappreciative; it
answers not before the word its owner
gazes vacantly, and often repels con-
versation by his stupidity.
A SMOKER CAN BE SCENTED AFAR
oFF.-The foulness of the breath in
most chewers and smokers proves pos
itively that the oil ef tobacco, with all
its deadly powers, is carried into the
blood and pervades the whole system;
it could not be continually thrown out
from the lungs, if it did not thus reach
the air cells and windpipe; it is thrown
out there with the poisonous carbonic
acid. Some persons absorb the poison
more freely than others. We have
seen paralysis of both the upper and
lower extremities in men scarce past
middle age. A person who is saturated
with tobacco, or rtobacco-poisoned, ac-
quires sodden or dirty yellow hue;
couple of his breaths will scent a
large room; you may nose him before
he takes his seat. OF this he is entirely
unconscious he will give you the full
force of his lungs, and for the most
part such people have great desire to
approach and annoy you. We have
been followed round large office table
by them, backing continually to escape
the nuisance, till we had made revo-
luton or two before our motive was
perceived.
The CHEwER CAN'T ENJOY Raw
OYSTERS. eating, the tobacco
chewer must lose all delicate apprecia-
ton of flavor we have observed, in
deed, that he is very easily satisfied by
the filthy Irish cookery, and greasy
cold meat and vegetables of the hotel
and boarding house; he seasons his
food very highly, because of his obtuse
taste many of these unfortunates drink
raw brandy for the same reason.
The tobacco-chewer rarely eats raw
oyster, preferring it fried, and coated
over with grease and its empyreuma;
| if he takes it raw, he tortures the poor
creature with pepper and vinegar, and
sticks fork in it; he cannot elicit it
gently from its pearly prison with his
iips-they are clumsy and half paral-
yzed.
{ HIS SWEETHEART WONT Kiss HIM
\ SQUARE ON THE LIPs.-Finally, and
| worst of all, he ceases to appreciate
| the chaste' salute from the rosy lips of
love, and if the mistress of his blunted
/ affections should permithim to approach
her cheek, it can only be with pent-up
, breath, and averted eye directly to-
wards bis pocket-tfie only attraction
, beautiful woman can possibly have
for a tobacco-chewer. If there be
vice more prostrating to the body and
+ mind, and more crucifying to ali the
sympathies of mans spirit and nature,
we have yet to be convinced of it.
| A farmer who had employed a green
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