Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-11-16
Effects of Chewing and Smoking
How to Break the Habit.

FROM report OF Dr. DlO Lewis
lecture on tobacco in the Boston Com
gregationalist, we take the following
interesting statements:
Tobacco, in its ordinary state-the
"plugs' which you have in your pock-
ets-is powerful poison. 1t will do
what no other poison will do. l do
not speak of the oil of tobacco. do
not speak Of nicotine, a single drop
of which, put upon the tongue of a
cat, will kill her in twenty seconds :;
three drops of which put upon 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. am not talking of these
things at all, although they are in to
bacco. am talking of tobacco in
the form of the original "plug,''
Now let me suppose an experiment.
l call from this audience a boy ten
years old who has never used tobacco.
"Chariey, will you help us make an
experiment here tonight P "Ycs
sir.'' II will give you fifty dollars if
you will go through it like a plucky
man." Il will, SIR s'The expert
ment is this: There is a piece of to,
bacco as large as pea. Put that in
your mouth chew it, don't let any go
down your throat; spit every drop of
the juice in that spittoon; but keep on
chewing; don't stop; just chew stead
ily." Before he has done with that
piece of tobacco, as large as a pea,
simply squeezing the juice out of it
without swallowing drop of it. he
death like aspiration: he vomits the
contents of his stomach; put your tin-
gers 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, to your drug stores,
begin with the upper shelves, and take
down every bottle, and then open ev-
cry drawer, and you cannot find q
| single poison Except some very rare
ones, which you never heard of which,
if taken into the mouth of that ten
year old boy, and not swallowed, will
produce these effects. Tobacco, then
[ repeat, in its ordinary state is an ex-
lFeihely powerful poison.
Look into a mans mouth who
chews tobacco, and see how red it is
The tongue is so red that the doctor
no longer appeals to it to determine
the condition of the mans stomach
He can learn nothing of it by exam
ining his patients tongue, if he be $
chewer of tobacco. That congestion
which produces the redness, extends 6
little farther down than you see, an6
effects the speech DR.. Cole and DR.
Waterhouse affirm that they are never
mistaken in undertaking to determine
whether public speaker be chewel
of tobacco or not, so peculiar is it's in
fiuence upon the articulation. But lie
that pass
Smoking Injuries the teeth. It pro
duced decay in two of my upper teetl
and one under tooth, by holding M,
cigar or pipe between them. It is no
remarkable that by the heat of the to
bacco smoke and its arrid poison, thi
injurious influence should be exertet
upon the teeth.
But that is nothing compared wit
its influence upon the lungs. Pu
your hand over your eye, fill you
mouth with smoke, and then blow tina
smoke up into your hand. Now loo
in the glass and see how red the cy
, is. The tears run down the check
What is the matter? There has bee
powerful poison in the eye. An
} yet men whose fathers and grandfs
theirs have died of consumption do nc
scruple to sit down in a room wher
d there are dozen smokers, and smok
y until it is all blue, taking in lungfI
4 after lungful of that deadly poison
y l believe with DR.. Waterhouse, that
yoCng men would abandon cigars, col
: sumption would be confined almo
exclusively to women, and in them
would be produced by their unhapr
state of dress. believe with the gre
Leihig, who says that of the Ger.na
males who die between fifteen al
forty, many die of smoking tobacc
Pass on 10 snuffing. In the fir
place snuf1inG spoils the voice. Ho
strange it is that any man should wi
fully change his voice, the richest m
sic this side of heaven, into a mas
snarl by taking snuff into his nose !!
s. L tell you man VINO QOuDlS the &c
trine of total depravity, must be sta
gered by that fact. Besides, it pr
duces headache and disease of t
stomach which nobody can cure.
/ know l do but echo the voice
h the wise ones of the world, when
M M say that this use of tobacco paraly;
on; aud deadens the moral sensibilities
most more than any other habit
49,, which civilized men indulge. Gent
men, advise you to clean yourself
.ur and quit. would give it up. It
IL nasty, disgusting, ruinous habit.
But somebody says: e'I can't g
it up; want to, and have tried, bu
cnn,k do IL - Can't ron 2 Frhf n