Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-11-05
Tie Use Of Tobacco.

! thousand millions OF cigars pf
N year, which is equal to one'hundre
and sixty millionpounds oftoBaccC
Il or eighty thousand tons. This !
o the worlds account on the sipgl
item of cigars. 0 .as l.a'l
- The world smokes in pipes, &C
> cording to the most accurate statis
tican of the country about eigh
hundred million pounds Of tobacco
which is equal to four hundred
, thousand tons. ..1 E#al 9."Ht
The world takes in the quid, an,
nuaIly, about one hundred tbous-
and tons Of the weed and per au-
} mum takes between the thumb and
finger, and snufs up the nose, not
, less than forty thousand tons Of
the powdered tobacco-making an
aggregate consumption of six hun,
dred and twenty thousand tons per
year. f2i a'a.d ramlar
Granting an average weight Of
one hundred pounds to every in
habitant, the aggregate weight of
the worlds population is fifty mil
lion tons, and the world at the
present rates consumes its own
weight in tobacco once every eighty
years. Supposing one-tenth of the
worlds populationto to he votaries
ofthe weed, and pursuing the same
calculation, on the average every
consumer of tobacco uses his own
weight of the weed once in every
eight years or, if the consumer
begins at twenty years OF age to.
use the article, and lives to be sixty
years old, he dies, having consumr
ed in some form or other, five
times his own weight in cigars,
smoking tobacco, snuff or "sol-
ace"
We find the following in late
New York letter: There has re-
Gently been introduced into our
market a most villainous "brand"
Of cigars, which are nothing if not
poisonous and deadly. They are
made Of cabbage leaf, or some 9th
er vegetable plant, having slight
filing of poor tobacco and favored /.
with some kind OF poisonous sub
stance. They smoke freely and
are pleasant to the taste, but have
a most pernicious effect upon the
coatings of the stomach and the
physical system generally. NJ hear
Of several who have suffered severe
ly from the use Of them. Owing
to the high duties, no cigar that is.
fit to smoke can be purchased here
for less than twelve and fifteenI
cents apiece at retail Devotees Of
the weed are beginning to learn
thist and are, consequently, betak-I
ing themselves to the use of smoke
ing tobacco. The meerschaumt
trade has, as result, received an
impetus of late, and gentleman may
not unfrequently now be seen in
in meersehaum pipes on the
public thoroughfares. 70 it'a
Pr Decaisne, French surgeon, ,
ia the course of Investigations on
he influence of tobacco on the cir
has been struck with the
arge number Of boys, aged from /.
line to fifteen, who smoke, and has /,
)een led TO inquire into theaconnec-
ion Of this habit with impairment
# the general health, He has OBJ
served thirtJ-eight boys, aged from :
line to fifteen, who smoked more
,ra less. OF these, distinct symp-
ohs were present III twenty Seven,
n twenty-five there were various A
disorders of the circulation--bruit i
le sonfle in the neck, palpitationf !,
disorders of digestion, slbwncss off,
and amore or less marked
aste for strong drinks. In three
hePqlse was intermittent, IN eight {,
hero]sWas found on oxamlnatjoad
more or less marked 5dimiuution off n
lie red corpdscles; in twelve there
vas rather frequent ePitaxiisi ten i
lad disturbed sleep ! and four had
light ulcerations Of tile mucous a
membrane Of the mouth, which dis
on eeasing from the use !,
If tobacco for some days, In
hildren who we're very we'll nourl n
shed, the disorder was, in general, b
ess marked. AS to the ages, eight ! !
# the boys were from nine to n
Eelyel years old nineteen from
welve to fifteen. The duration1ofl t
he habit ofsmoking was, in eleven, y
rom six months to a year, and in i
ixteen more than two years, The eI
ordinary treatment of anemia in a.
-eneral produced no effect as long