The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-11-02
The Effects of Smoking.

The remarkable research made by N. Bou-
isson upon the danger of smoking has attrac-
/ ed the notice of the Academic, and has been
| rewarded with high praise. The horrors hith-
erto unknown, or acknowledged with which
/ smokers are threatened, nay more, convicted
| by NJ. Bousson, are sufficient upon bare antici-
cation to ruin the revenue and the pipe-ma-
| j,ers also. Cancer in the mouth, III. Bouisson
/ declares to have grown so frequent from the
/ nse of tobacco that it now forms one of the
most dreaded diseases in the hospitals, and at
| MontpeIier. where NJ Bouisson resides, the
/ operation of its extraction forms the principal
| practice of the surgeons there. In a snort
oer;ol of time, from 1916 to 1859, NJ. Bouis
SON himself performed sixty-eight operations
for cancer in the lips at the Hospital Saint
! Eloi The writers on cancer previous to our
| day mention the rare occurrence of the dis
| ease in the lips, and it has therefore become
evident that it must have increased of late
years in proportion with the smoking of to-
baceo. Nj. Bouisson proves this fact bv the
relative increase in the French duties on to-
baeco, which, in 1872, brought an annual
amount of twenty-five millions, and now
give revenue of one hundred and thirty mil
ions; almost that attained by the duties on
wines and spirits, and far beyond that render
ed by those on sugar. Mr.. Bouisson remarks
Justly or not, that this figure, extravagant as
it may appear, fades into insignifcance before
that attained by the British tax, which accor-
ding to DIR. Seymour, amounts to fabulous
sum, in county boys smoke from five O'Clock
IN the afternoon till three O'Clock in the morn
ing, and where children OF ten years old are
known to consume as many as forty cigars in
a day!''
Abe use of tobacco rarely, however, produ-
ces lip cancer in youth. Almost all Bouisson's
patients had passed the age of forty. In indi-
vidualS of the humber classes who smoke short
pipes and tobacco Of inferior quality, the dis
ease is more frequent than with the rich, who
smoke cigars or long pipes 1t become evil
dent; therefore, that it is owing mora to the
constant application of heat to the lips than
to the inhaling of the nicotine, that the dis
ease is generated. With the Orientals, who
are careful to maintain the GOODNESS of the
mouthpiece by the transmission of the smoke
through perfumed water, the disease is I'M
known. M. B0uisSSon, whose earnestness in
The cause does him the utmost credit, advises |
a general crusade to be ieached by the doc |
tors of every country against the immoderate |
use of tobabaeco, as being the only means of |
exterminating the habit because, although |
the most powerful sovereigns have been pow
erless to prevent it-although Sultan ANU
rath threatened in vain to cut off 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 hold in more horror than noseless
face, or even an communicated soul-and
that is an untimely death. Let young men
be once impressed with this truth, and the
art of Smoking which one of our best
authors has lately extol ed as the finest of all
the fine arts, will soon be set aside and for
gotten.-London Paper.