The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-11-23

effects of the fumes. Persons suffer
most from tobacco while learning TO
smoke DR. Richardson says that the
spasmodic seizures are sometimes terri
bic, especially in boys. There is a sensa-
tion OF imminent death, the heart nearly
ceases to beat, and sharp pains shoot
through the chest. Examination OF in
ferior animals under such conditions
shows that "the brain is pale and empty
of blood; the stomach Redeemed in
round spots, so raised and pile-like that
they resemble patches OF Utrecht velvet
The blood is preternaturally fluid, the
lungs are as pale as those Of a dead calf,
and the heart is feebly trembling; such
is the primary action of ones first cigar.
After a time however, the body be
comes accustomed to the Influences OF
the poison; and with the exception of
constant functional disturbances lowing
TO the excretory organs, notably the
kidneys, being compelled to do work not
essential to their duties), no distressing
results are felt. There are numerous in
stances where the evil effects are scarcely
appreciable, the physical and nervous
constitution OF the smoker being capa-
bic OF resisting the influence. In many
cases copious salvation attends smoking.
and in this circumstance the opponents
of tobacco have found a strong argument.
Still, either to expectorate or not to do
so is a choice of two evils. In the latter
case, the result is to swallow the saliva
charged with poisonous matter; in the
former, the saliva needed to prepare food
for digestion is lost, and besides, as it
contains salts of lime in solution, the
effect is to produce large formations of
tartar on the teeth. Smokers sore
throat is a special irritable state Of the
mucous membrane induced by cigar
smoking, which soon disappears when
the habit is broken off Tobacco smoke
does not produce consumption or bron-
chitis, but il tends to aggravate both
maladies. It's effect on the organs OF
sense is to cause, in the extreme degree,
dilation Of the pupils of the eye, confu-
sion of vision. bright lines, luminous or
cobweb specks, and long retention of
images on the retina, with other and
analogous symptoms affecting the ear,
namely, inability to define sounds clearly
and the occurrence of a sharp ringing
sound like that of a whistle or a bell
Its effect on the brain is to impair the
activity Of that organ and to oppress it il
it be duly nourished, but to soothe it if
it be exhausted. 1t leads to paralysis in
the volitional and in the sympathetic or
organic nerves. and to over-secretion
from the glandular structures Science
was not wise enough to prepare so form
idable an Indictment Of the nicotian
weed as the above in King James time,
else that monarch might have had better
ground than his personal dislike for
stigmatIzing the habit Of smoking as a |
custom loathesome 10 the eye, hateful |
to the nose, harmful to the braine, dan |
gerous to the lungs and in the black |
fume thereof, neerest resem- /
bling the horrible Stigian smoaks of the |
pit that is bottomlesse"
And yet, despite all that Science can
'ay, the habit is increasing Two cen.
turies ago the Turks regarded smoking
As religious offense, and paraded
smoker through the streets of CONSTANT
lople with his pipe stuck through his
nose as q warning to others. Who can
iisconnect the Turk now from the ideas
'f chibouque or nargileh, or fragrant
Latakia2 Look at the best cigar wrap
1ers The world can produce, raised on
obacco fields in the heart OF New Eng
and, where the Puritan fathers once
Tisited the direst of blue law vengeance
IN the wretch who profaned His Ma
estys handiwork by making a chimney
II his nostrllls." The value of our to-
'acco crop last year reached nearly $780,
100000. We consume annually some
3 700 hogsheads of the leaf; we i'm
'orted about $4,000 bales of cigars, etc,
rom Cuba in 1875.
What is the end of it all Effects on
Individuals likewise affect communities,
hese in turn influence the nation. No
'erson that smokes can be in perfect
Ieslth. and an imperfect organism can
lot reproduce perfect one. Therefore
is logical to conclude that, were smok.
ng the practice of every individual Of a
stion. then that people would degener- I
te into physically inferior race. 1t
Tould follow, moreover, that, in those
where smoking is most prac-
ised, a lower physical, and a conse-
uently lower intellectual development {
aust be found. Such, we think, will be !
onceded to be true Of Spain, of Cuba, of
'ortugal, of Turkey, of Greece, and OF
be South American countries, where
hose who are addicted to the habit
astly outnumber those who do not (
moke.