Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-05-27
The EHects OF Chewing and Smoking
flow to Break the Habit.

| IOil " OI IlO LCWIS L6C'
ture on tobacco, in the Boston 60A5reod
btioRdJisc, we take the following interesting
statementsi .l sdi 90 og tHs a -ffs .Ia
/ Tobacco, in its ordinary state--the
"plugs," which you have in your pockets
is powerful poison. Il will do what
no other poison wifi do. / do not speak
OF the oil OF tobacco. / do not speak of
nicotine, single drop ofwhichy put upon
the tongue ofa cat, Will kill her in twenty
seconds three drops of which, put up. n
the tongue of bulldog, will kill him so
quick he will hardly get out of Your arms
in his struggles and ten drops of which
will kill COW inside of ten minutes. l
am not talking of these things at all, al
Though they are in tobacco. l am talking
OF tobacco in the form of the original
plug" 81. .-.t "A, ,.-,t, ....-........
Now let me suppose an experiment.
call from this audience boy ten years
old, who has never used tobacco.
Charles, will you help us make an ex
pertinent here tonight ~ Yes, sir. - II
will give you fifty dollars ii you will 90
through il like q plucky man" :" WILL
sir. ri The experiment is this: There is
piece of tobacco, IS large as pea Put
that in your mouth chew it don't let
one drop go down your throat spit
toon but keep on chewing; don't stop {,
just chew steadily Before he has done
with that piece of tobacco, as large as a
pea. simply squeezing the Juice out of it,
without swallowing dr. p he lies here
upon the platform in a cold, death-like
perspiration he vomiis the contents of
his stomach; put your fingers upon his
wrist, there is no pulse and so he seems
for two or three hours as though he were
dying, or, perchance, dead.
NOW, gentlemen, go to your drug stores,
begin with the upper Shelves and take
down every bottle, and then open every
drawer, and you cannot find single
poison Except some very rare ones, which
you never heard oD which taken into the
mouth of that ten-yea old boy, and not
swallowed, will produce these effects
Tobacco, then, I repeat, in its ordinary
state, is an extremely powerful poison.
Look in5o man g m juth who chaos TO-
bacco, and see how red il is The tongue
Is so red that the doctor no longer appeals
to 1t to determine the condition of the
mans stomach. He can learn nothing of
1t by examining his patients tongue, if he
be chewer of tobacco. That con gestion
which produces the redness, extends a
little farther down than you can see, and
affects the speech. DR.. Cole and DR..
Waterhouse affirm that they are never
mistaken jD undertaking to determine
whether public speaker be ohewer of
tobacco or not, so peculiar is its influence
upon the articulation. But let that pass.
Smoking Injuries the teeth; it produces
decay in the teeth. 1t produced decay in
two OF my upper teeth, and one under
tooth. before had any other decayed
tooth in my mouth, by holding my pipe
or cigar between them. 1t Is not remark
able that with the heat of the tobacco.
smoke and its acrid poison, this injurious
influence should be exerted upon the
teeth. But that is nothing com
pared with its influence upon the
lungs. Put your hand over your eye, fill
your mouth with smoke, and then blow
that smoke up under your hand Now
look in the glass. How red the eye is
The tears run down the cheek; what is
the matter? There has been a powerful
poison in the eye. And yet, men whose
fathers and gr&ndathers have died of con-
sumption do not scruple to sit down in a
room where there are a dozen smokers,
and smoke until it is all blue, taking in
lungful after luneful of that deadly poison.
believe with DR.. Waterb0use, that if
young men would abandon cigars, con-
sumption would be confined almost eX.
clusively to women, and in them be pro-
duced by their unhappy state of dress.
believe the great Liebig, who says that of
the German males who die between fifteen
and forty, many die of smoking tobacco.
Pass on to nutfng. In the first place,
snuffing spoils the voice How strange it
is that any man should willfully change
his voice, the richest music this side OF
heaven, into nasal snarE by taking snuff
into his nosel l tell you a man who
doubts the doctrine of total depravity
must be staggered by that fact. Besides,
it produces headache and diseases of the
stomach which nobody can cure.
know l do but echo the voices of the
wise ones OF the world, when say that
this use of tobacco paralyzes and deadens
the moral sensIbilities almost more than
any other habit in which civilized men in
dulge. Gentlemen, advise you to clean
yourselves, and quit. would give it up. I
1t is a nasty, disgusting, ruinous habit.
But somebody says: 81 can't give it up;
want to- and have tried, but can't do it,"
Can't you ? Then wouldn't. But if
you really are so enslaved that you can
not get out of your chains, l will help you
a little. Stop 10 night; don't use any to-
morrow. The first day will not be so very
hard. You can get on pretty well the first
day, as everybody knows who has been
through the mil, as have been The
second day is pretty bad. In the after
noon of the second day, your memory is
little doubtful; you can't exactly say
whether it was two brothers or three
brothers that came over; you can't exactly
say whether your grandfather came from
the East or the West when he settled here.
But be patient the secOna day. The third
morning comes the tug. Now go and
take an old-fashiOned alcohol sweat
Place an alcohol lamp under your chair,
put blanket over your shoulders, and
sweat until your skin is fairly parboiled
Then you will be just as comfortable for
one day as you could wish There is no
dryness of the mouth, no disturbance of
the secretiOns. You are perfectly COM
Portable for one day. The next day you
are in trouble again, but not so bad as the
day before. Take another sweat; take
even third, or fourth one. Sweating
does not hurt people; sometimes it is
good for them. Take three or four thor
ough sweats, and then you will go off
under easy sail, and will have no further
trouble from your enemy. aa
g., .-,, Simple Nature.