Sauk Rapids frontierman. [volume] (Sauk Rapids, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1860, 1859-11-10
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TIL. EFEEti tts oF SMOKING,

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ATTRACTED ihe snotice Gfafhe Aoa6s4is.1
and has been nrewarded with high aprisS.s
The horrors hitherto uoknewn, ,unac-s
sknowledgeds ivilhsswhieh snokerss. arsss
sthreatened, sands more, convicted by Mi
y oy isson, ARG auficient upon bare anli-,
lcipationto fuinlthe revenue fandths piesN
make - alsp ea Cancer in tthe mouth, H.
Bsuissoa dechressto have grown, 30 1ne-s
qAent from thseilse nc a,Dbacso, that sits
PnQws forma, ona 'of the most. dreaded din
Eeases il5hes bpspisalss and as Montpeliaeii
whsre sMr, 4BQujsson rssides. the npesaSs
Etion efits exttaetioh forms the prinsipstt
practice of the surgeons fhero. q .laes9
short period af time. from, le45 TO 1861
Nh, Bouissnn himself spreformed. lsafy.a
eight operations for cancer .iinvthd Epaa
at the a Hospital Saint Eloi., The writer's
On cancer previous TO our day mention
the rare occurrencesofthe disease i'll thsa
lips and it has therefore become evident
that it must have incre ased late yeaFss
in proportion with the smoking Of tobae-s
co. Mr.. Bouisson proves this facto by1
the relative increase Id the French dG-
ties on tobacco, which, in 1872. broushta
an annual amount Of twenty five nIil-.J
lions, and now. give q !. revenue sof roner
hundred and thirty millions almost that.
attained by the the duties on wines 1nd
|spisits, and far beyond that erendercdby
those, on sugar Mr. Bouisson rcmariss.
Justly or not, that = this figure, extray-
agant as it may appear, ades into Insig- s.
Fnifcance before that attained by5ths
British tax, & which, according to 1Dr.
Seymour, amounts to u fabulous sum-
IN scountryWhere &c boys smoke from FIVE
o'clock. the afternoon till three % clock y.
lin the morning, and when children of ten >
years old are known to cor SINE as many
'aS forty cigars in a day 1" 81. bua .4apaEa
Thetnse of tobacco rarely, however,
produces lip cancer in youti. Almost.a
all Bouisson's patients had passed thu =
age offorty.s In, individuals OF the hun
bic classes who smoke short pipes and >
tobacco of inferior quality;ahe diseaseis',
more frequent than with the rich, fwhoi'
smokes cigars or long pipes: sIt she-o
comes evident. therefore, that III is ow- :
ing more to the constant application Of.
heat 70 the lips than tetthe inhaling Of
the nicotine, that the disease is genera-a
ted. With the Orientals, who are tcare-is
.lul to- maintain the goodness arofithe
mouthpiece by the transmission of the )
smoke through perfumed water, the dis 3
ease is unknown. Mr. Bouisson, whose
|earnestness in the, cause does him tho 4
utmost credit, advises a general crusade 4
to be preached by the doctors ofevery
country against the immoderate use of !,
tobacco, as being the only means Of ex-sI /
terminating the habit ;because, although
the most powerful sovereings haye bses~
powerless e prevent it--although Saliana
Amurath threatened in .yain to cut of J
the noses Of thos who smoke. and Peter
the Great, vowed, direst vengeances =. i
gainst all smokers, and even the thun- 4
|ders Of the Vatican, have been hurled A. a
gainst them il vain, there is one thing (
which mankind holds in more horror than 8
a noseless face, Or seyenan sexcoMmnn-s d
icaied soul--and that in an untimely
detah, Let young men be once impress- S
ed with this truth. and the. TART of 4
smoking which one of our s best an
thors has lately extolled az the finest of j
all the fine arts will soon be set asds 4
and fcrgotton,, ~ London paper. .bsaq sd,