Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-11-24
HOW and Why We Quit the Use OF To-
bacoo. and the Effects.

DaccO, ana the EueObs
Near two years ago we quit off at
once the use of tobacco, firmly meal
ing to make the abstinence life
Dractice. So firm was our resolve
at we have since at times gone so
far as to challenge to battle our old
taste formed by twenty-seven years
Of habitual use, and at each challenge
we were the victor. Henceforth
taste is to be in complete subordina-
ton to resolution. The first week
OF anxiety and temptation was rath
or trying, and when writing editori-
al a month after there appeared
sensation of desperate want OF some
thing, or screw loose in our mental
stew pan. Upon other occasions
we seldom experienced such longing.
The certain effect upon health has
been even better than was anticipate
ed. The usual symptoms of dys-
pepsia common to old tobacco worms,
as sourness of stomach, headache,
dullness, &C., have either disappear
ed entirely or else are vanishing
As to biliousness, which is always
mere precursor and forecause of the
complaints named, and q result of
oeer eating and drinking, we now
feel perfectly able to manage it, be,
cause the disuse of tobacco has lett
as free from that etnrnally whet Q
- eAclted appetite for verythiug
ed BILE and drinkable. In short we
al now regulate tho appetite and
most o. the time feel like a temper
zee society in ability 10 overcome
olrcraving for lager beer, &c. We
now soberly look upon tobacco as
tue origin Of most of the intempcr~
a ce aud mid-life disease, especially
nong men actively engaged in
i. MA, ANA physical labors. And it
pears almost q certainty in our
mind that young men who go TO us
ilg tobacco will soon begin to lose
control Of their appetite, and there
after too often give up TO excuses in
eating and drinking-the results to
be publicly told by their having fre>
ouent attacks Of biliousuess and
headache from twenty to thirty,
thereafter by dyspepsied and mis-
cradle life. Trifing is the mere cash
outlay for tobacco, but terrible is tho
expense to health, comfort and the
pleasures of life
As TO quitting the use Of tobacco,
it is all matter of resolution. A
few possess not the moral ability to
quit, but most indulgers are able and
only fail to resolve and put on cour-
age. Some quit for time, feel bet
ter, then return to the weed such
possess q rather feeble taste for it
compared with those who go it long
and strong. Taste for tobacco
grows to just about the same inten-
sjty as for liqnor, and it requires an
equal resolution to cease using the
one IS the other total abstinence is
the only remedy for either mode
rating is simply impossible, as it
holds good only when the appetite is
weakest.
Burton'S Antidots, referred to last
week as highly recommended, may
be help to some persons in revers-
ing their appetite for this evil, but
the only sure way we are thinking
is to quit right off, and thereafter
aim to keep tho stomach in good
condition that there may exist no
false appetite for tobacco or other
stimulant. We quit, carrying in our
breeches pocket the usual plug for
weeks after. At last we substituted
q small box Ofsnuff to DO used IS a
temptor. But the better way is
to touch not, handle not and be
without any tempter.
The Good Templars, did they but
know the evils insured to those using
tobacco, would make it second if
not first evil, against which to
swear endless war. No enemy is
moro satanic. 1t insidiously attacks
the young, the gay and spirited by
appealing to their taste and fancy
1t even assumes to dare boys to the
charge of onrJrd toodrd manhood By
the tobacco line, 1t says, 90 1t boys
'ch3e gou're young-the old folks 'front.'
kaoio IT," And when the boy gets
over his first tobacco and puke, it
savs now can 90 it, and chew and
smoke without evermore being sick
Of itr Its exec sses cause peevish>
ness and bad temper. and its victims
look at things through distorted i'm
Misunderstanding other mean and
oopperheadish symptoms such as de-
cei', envy and jealousy. unholy
thoughts, the btHes and bad Dreams
all Of which is known by every to-
bacco worm Of varied experience.
Now we shall be glad to near and
report in the Herald the experience
o. dozen others who have quit the
weed, or have not quit bat feel sick
Of it.