The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-10-24

THE EFFECTS OF SMoKING.-The remarkable rn
search made by Nj. Bouisson upon the danger of
smoking has attracted the notice of the Academic
and has been rewarded with high praise. The hor
rors hitherto unknown. or unacknowledoed with
winch smokers are threatened, nav more convicted
oy NJ bOuss0n, are sufficient upon bare anticipa-
ton to ruin the revenue and the pine makers a Iso
Cancer in the mouth NJ Bouisson declares to have
grown so treqnent from the use of tobacco that If
now forms one of the most dreaded diseases in the
hospitals, and at Montpelier, where NJ. Bouisson
resides the operation of its extraction forms the
principal practice of the surgeons there In short
period OF time, from lS45 to 1882 NJ Bouisson him
self performed sxty-eight operations for cancer in
the lips at the Hospital Saint Eloi The writers on
cancer previous to our day mention the rare occur
renee OF the disease in the lips and it has therefore
become evident that it must have increased of late
years IN proportion with the smoking of tobacco
NJ Boulsson proves this fact bv the relative in
crease IN the French duties on tobacco which in
ISiZ, brought an annual amount of twenty-five
millions, and now give revenue of one hundred
and thirty millions; almost that attained by the
duties on wines and spirits, and far beyond that
rendered by those on sugar. NJ. BOuisson remarks
justly or not, that 'this figure extrayarant as II
may appear, fades into nsigni6cance before that
attained by the British tax, which, according to
Dr. Seymour, amounts to a fabulous sum- in a
country WheTe boys smoke from five O'Clock in the
afternoon till three O'Clock in the morning, and
-where children OF ten years old are known to con-
sumo as many as forty cigars in a day.
The use OF tobacco rarely, however, produces lip
had passed the age offorty. In individuals of the
humber classes who smoke short pipes and tobacco
OF inferior quality, the disease is more frequent
than with the rich, who smoke cigars or long pipes
1t becomes evident therefore, that it is owing more
to the constant application of heat to the lips than
to the inhaling ofthe nicotine that the disease is
generated. With the Orientas, who are careful to
maintain the GOODNESS of the mOuthpiece bv the
transmission of the smoke through perfumed water,
the disease is unknown. NJ. Bouisson, whose earn
estness in the cause does him the utmost credit ad-
vises general crusade to be preached by the doc
tors OF every country against the mmoderate use
OF tobacco, as being the only means of extermina-
ting the habit; because although the most power
ful sovereigns have been powerless to prevent it
although Sultan Amurath threatened in vain to cut
Oft the noses of those who smoked, and Peter the
Great vowed direst vengeance against all smokers,
and even the thunders of the Vatican have been
hurled against them in vain, there is one thing
which mankind holds in more horror than a nose
less face, or even communicated soul-and
that Is an untimely death. Let young men be once
Impressed with this truth, and the cart of Smok-
ing which one OF our best authors has lately ex-
tolled as the finest of all the fine arts will soon be
set aside and iorgotten.-Londom paper.