Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-14
Poisonous Effects of Tobacco.

Maxon, of Milton, for copy of hi
able and exhaustive essay on "ro
bacco and its Uses" read before ;
religious Association at Welton
Iowa. The writer has collected ;
vast amount of valuable information
upon the poisonous objects of thi:
material, and it is pity that every
young man who is disposed to smoke
or who has already constructed the
vile habit, could not have copy Of
this essay placed in his hands. He
lays down this startling proposition
and sustains it by the most indubita
BILE proof:
81 have the best authority for af-
firming that the use Of tobacco is to.
day inhicting far more injury upon
the human race than alcohol This
must be from these facts,
1st. That more use it than use
alcohol.
I'd. 1t is much more deadly poi-
son than alcohol.
Sd. Its effects are more occult
and tardy, and hence not so much
needed.
4th. Its habtual use is more diff !,
cult of Abandonment"
Then again IS to the habit of
smoking
"lst. Smoking weakens the di,
gestive and assimilative functions,
impairs the elaboration of chyle, and
OF the blood and prevents the healthy
nutrition of several structures Of the
body.
I'd. Smoking generates thirst and
vital depression, to remove which
the stimulating liquors are resorted
to and thus two of the most debas-
ing habits and vices to which human
nature can be degraded, are INDUCED
in, to the shortening Of human life
and to the injury and ruin of OF
spring if indeed, as often occurs,
these habits do not extinguish the
provocative faculties altogether.
Sd. Smoking ..weakens the nerv-
Gus power, induces q dreamy and
imbecile state of existence, and pros
duces Incidence and incapability of
manly or continued exertion and
sinks its votary into a state of care,
less or maudlin inactivity aud self.
enjoyment of his vice, until he finally
dies driviling idiot, an imbecile par
alytic. These results often become
chronic and remain after the habit
is abandoned.
That tobacco and alcohol go hand
in hand is a fact of common obser-
walton. Show me ten drinkers, and
| will show you nine if not ten out
of the number with a quid or a pipe
IN their mouth, and this is inevitable,
both on physical and moral princi-
pies"
As to the poisonous effect of tobac~
co, he says
The physiological effects of these
poisons on the human system have
been very carefully noted by many
distinguished Psychologists and phys
sicians, and are summed up as fol-
lows by DR.. Pereira, an eminent
French physician. He says:
ats most remarkable effects are
languor, teebleness, relaxation of
muscles, trembling of the limbs,
and tendency to faint, vision is fire.
quently enfeesled, the ideas confused,
the pulse small and weak, the respie
ration laborious, the surface cold and
clammy and finally commissions If
you increase the dose yon increase
the intensity of these effects, and
then comes on nausea, vomiting,
sometimes purging; extreme weak
ness, depression of the vascular sys-
tenn, followed by paralysis and tor
por, terminating in death"
"When a youth commences his
apprenticeship to tobacco, he often
suffers most inconceivable misery,
sickness and vomiting. Tho anti
dote for this miserable condition is
strong coffee, or brandy and water
and if he persevere and suffer on, his
nerves will at length surrender and
he will become habituated to the
weed and the bottle at once"
He goes on to say, what every
man must assent to:
at is truly melancholy to witness
the great number of young men who
smoke now-a-day s ; an 1t is painful
to contemplate how many promis>
ing youths must be stunted ia their
growth and enfeebled in their minds
before they arrive at manhood. -
JdneSUiUe Gazette.