The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-05-26
The Effects Of Chewing and Smoking
How to Break The Habit.

From report Of DR. Dio Lewis Lee
ture on tobacco, in the Boston C0nereqo-
ttOnalist, we take the following interesting
statements:
TobaccO, in its ordinary state-the
"pl1gs," which you have in your pockets
is powerful poison. II will do what
no other poison will do. ! do not speak
OF the oil Of tobacco. I do not speak of
nicotine, single drop Of which, put upon
the tongue ofa cat, will kin her in twenty
seconds: three drops Of which. nut rpor
the tongue of a bulldog, viii 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.
am not talking of these things al all, al
though they are in tobacco am talking
ot tobacco i'll the form OF the original
plug"
Now let me suppose an experiment. ]
call from this audience a boy ten years
old, who has never used tobacco.
Charles, will you belp us make an ex
pertinent here tonight ?" " Yes. sir" ~
will give you fifty dollars if YOU will go
through it like a plucky man" "I will
sir" " The experiment is this: There is
a piece of tobacco, rs large as pea. Put
that in your mouth; chew it; don't let
one drop go down your throat spit
every drop of the juice into that 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 if
without swallowing drop he lies here
upon the platform in cold, death-like
perspiration; he v0rits the contents Of
his stomach; put y.ur 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 singh
poison Except some very rare ones, which
you never heard O0 which taken into the
mouth of that ten-year old boy, and not
swallowed, will produce these effects
Tobacco, then, l repeat, in its ordinary
state, is an extremely powerful poison
Look in.O mans mouth who chacs to
bacco, and see how red il is The ton cue
is 50 red that the doctor no longer appeals
to it to determine the condition of the
mans stomach. He can learn nothing of
it by examining his patients tongue, if he
be chewer Of tobacco. That congestion
which produces the redness, extends >
little farther down than you can see, and
affects the speech. DIR. Cole and DIR
Waterhouse affirm that they are never
mistaken in undertaking to determine,
whether public speaker be chewer 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. Tt produced decay H.
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 exertod upon the
teeth. But that is nothing com
pared with its influence upon tn
lungs. Put your hand over your eye, fill
your mouth with smoke, and then blow
that smoke up under your hand. Nov
look IN the glass. How red the eve is
The tears run down the check; what j.
the matter? There has been powerful
poison in the eye. And yet, men whose
fathers and gr&ndflthers have died OF con
sumption do not scruple to sit down in a
room whore there are dozen smokers,
and smoke until it is all blue, taking in
lungful after luneful of that deadly poison
| believe with DIR. Waterhouse. 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 snuffRg In the first place,
snufiing spOils the voice How strange il
is that any man should willfullv change
his voice, the richest music this side OF
heaven, into nasal snarl by taking snuff
into his nose, | 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 [ do but echo the voices of the
wise ones of the world, when ] say that
this use of tobacco paralyZes and deadens
the moral senslbilities almost more than
any other habit in which civilized men in
dulge Gentlemen, advise YOU to clean
yourselves, and quit. | would give it up.
1t is nasty, disgusting, ruinous habit
| But somebody says: 81 can't give il up; |
want to, and have tried, but | can't do it. "
| Can't you Then | wouldn't. But if
YOU really are so enslavcd that you can
not get out Of your chains, | will help you
little. Stop tonight; 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 mill, as have been. The
second day is pretty bad. In the after
noon of the second day, your memory Is
a 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 settle 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 a blanket over your shoulders, ana
sweat until your skin is fairly parboiled
Then you will be just as comfortable fol
one day as you could wish. There is III
dryness of the mouth, no disturbance o
the secretions. You are perfectly com
Portable for one day. The next day you
are in trouble again, but not SO bad as tn,
day before. Take another sweat; TAX,
even third, or fourth one. Sweating
does not hurt people; sometimes it i
good for them. Take three or four thor
ough sweats, and then you will go of
under easy sail, and will have no furthe
trouble from your enemy.
| NimnIa Natnra