The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-11-02
The Effects Of SmOkiulI.

The remarkable research made by NJ.
Bouisson upon the danger Of smoking has
attracted the notice of the Academy, and
has been rewarded with high praise. The
horrors hitherto unknown, or unacknowl.
edged, with which smokers are threateneds
nay more, convicted by M. Bouisson are suf'
fceRt upon bare anticipation to ruin the
revenue and the pipe.makers also. Cancer
in the mouth NJ. Bouisson declares to have
grown so frequent from the use of tobacco
that it now forms one OF the most dreaded
diseases in the hospitals, and at Montpelier,
where M. Boussun resides, the operation OF
its extraction forms the principal practice Of
the surgeons there. In q short period OF
time, from lS45 to 1859, M. Bouisson him
self performed six,y.eight operations for
Ger in the lips at the Hospital Saint Eloi.--
The writers on cancer previous to our day
mention the rare occurrence Of the disease
in the lips, and it has therefore become owl.
dent that it must have Increased Of late
years in proportion with the smoking of to-
bacco. NJ. Bouisson proves this fact by the
relative increase in the French duties on to!
bacco, which, in 1919, brought an annual
amount OF $25, ,OOe 900. and now gives q
revenue Of $l30,000 900; almost that at.
tanned 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 as extravagant as it may appear.
fades into insgnifcance before that attained
by the British tax, which, according to Dr..
Seymour, amounts to fabulous sum lin
country where 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 consume as many 90 forty
cigars in day ~ .-.. .ae5
The use of tobacco, rSrely, however, pro.
duces lip cancer ia youth. Almost all Of
Bouisson's patients had passed the age OF
forty. In individuals Of the humber class.
es who smoke short pipes and tobacco Of in.
ferior quality, the disease is more fregusnt
than with the rich, who smoke cigars or long
pipes. It becomes evideutI therefore, that
it is owing more to the constant applications
of heat to the lips then to the inhaliDg OF
the nicotine that the disease is generated. .--'
With the OrentsIs, who are careful to main.
tain the coolness Of the mouth piece BY tho
tra nsmssion of the smoke through perfunas.
ed water, the disease is unknown. ID. Bou.
isson, whose eaTDestnsss in the cause does
him the utmost credit, advises general cru
sade to be preached by the doctors Of every
country against the immoderate use Of TO.
bacco. as being the only means Of extsrmin'
ating the habit; because, although the most
po werfuI sovereigns have been powerlsss %
!, prevent it--although Sultan Amurath thaea'
tened in vain to cut of the noses OF those
who smoked, and Peter the Great vowed
dirsst vengeance against all smokers, and
even the thuuders Of the Vatican have been
hurled against them in vain. there Z one
thing which mankind holds in more horcl
than noseless face. or ev en- an excomnal.
, nj Gated soul--and that is an untimely death
Let young men be once impressed with this
truth, and the "Art Of Smoking, ," whisA enc
, of our best authors has lately extcllsd e ne
n finest Of ell the Zoe arts will seen hs sel
, sside and torgsttent