The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-01-31
DISEASE IN CIGARETTES.
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! New York Mercury.
A very sad death occurred few
weeks since. II was that OF the son OF ,
prominent and populs- politician,
young man who had just attained to hi
majority, highly educated, polished, re
| fined and with all the advantages o
wealth to make his life happy and pros
porous; a young man blameless and
without fault-ssve one, thst of cigarette
smoking, and it was this one fault thai
was the primary cause of his death. How
many other young men are being entic
ed to their graves BY the same insidiou;
means it would be somewhat difficult &c
compute, bat the subjec. is one That ii
worthy of Investigation. Lately
MANIA FOR CIGARETTE SMOKING
has developed itself. Formerly the
fashion was confined principally TO boys
and Cubans, but within the past year or
two it has been adopted by all classes
and cigarette smoking is how the rule
rather than the exception. In former
times it was considered en- regte 10 smoke
4 cigarette between the acts If the play
or opera, but now the paper cigars are
seen on the streets and the front plat
form OF cars, and the sale Of meerschsuu
cigarette holders is getting so large a:
TO gladden. the hearts OF the manufsc'
turers. Although there are expensive
brands Of cigarettes, 1t very
often happens that the tobacco from
which many of them are made is of al
inferior quality These breeders o
disease are frequently compounded o
refuse tobacco, cut up from old butts o
cigars that are picked up IN the street
and the curled exquisite pulling away a
bis cigarette would probably throw i
from him in disgust, were he aware ths
the tobacco from which i; is made Is, II
| all probability, the remains OF ciga
that has been between the lips of mar
afflicted with contagious disease. Their
are instances now on record where sor'
mouths and sometimes even worse
complaints have been introduced
| in this WAY. Another Objectionable
| feature in cigarette filings Is that they
/ are very often made of Turkish tobacco
| into the composition OF which opium en-
tiers largely. The effect of this constsn
! inhalation Of this narcotic is injuriou.
beyond description. 1t acts directly
upon botn the nerves and the liver, snc
| the constant smoker Of so called Russian
or Turkish cigarettes soon becomes pale
| isundiced and listless, the enervstin:
drug sspping up the life Of the smoke.
and, st the end of few years. leaving
him unfit for work and
| AyERIrABLE OBI ECT OF COMPASSION
| 10 his inability TO free himself from th'
bsneful influence of the subtle poison
But, perhaps, the meet deleterious effects
| OF Notwithstanding arises from the pa
per in winch the tobacco ia wrapped. lr
the manufacture OF this peculiar kind o
| paper, white lead forms one Of the com
ponent parts, and this, as Is OF course
known, Is
DEADLY POISON.
Naturally, this posion Is absorbed Int
the system. produces blotches on the face
| INJURIES the teeth, and makes sores on to-
lips. These are but the inevitable re
suits of the mineral poison absorbed, shc
| msy be seen time and again in day
walk, startling warnings against the per
/ Nucleus custom.
Another strong argument as ainst Gig
arctic smoking is the fact that the com
bustior Of the cigarette makes 1t impossi
bic to avoid inhsling large quantities o
nicotine, one of the most deadly poison
known to the phsrmacopIs- Th'
efect Of this inhalation is this
| The stomach is coated with nicotine
and absorbs it into the pores, causing 81
| irritation that may eventually bring OF
an inflammation that will be- serious, and
perhaps even fatal in its results. IL
smoking either pipe or cigar, the nicotine
Is not taken into the system IN sucl
large quantities, and hence the result j
not so disastrous; but the open end .
the cigarette, the incapscity OF the pspe
10 sufficiently absorb the poison, render
/ lts passage frecr and more plentiful. a
physician was heard to remsrk
/ few days since that be wou!'
rather smoke four cigars than ont
cigarette. and gave the reasons clte'
1 above. He also detailed some OF "a
symptoms that had lately come unde
/ his notice in the case Of young NAL
now under his treatment for serious I'll
ness from cigarette smoking. Tn
patient wass young man OF wealth an
! social position, who hat acquired N
I habit OF cigarette smoking, and hs
found himself at the end Of year utterl.
/ Frustrated with disease in which e1
cessive nervousness and rsckiug pains Il
/ the head and back were the princl
pal features. The first symptom
that had developed themselve
were . smarting sensation IN the hp'
which soon became covered With re-
sores. These continued 70 increase, an
I shortly the sufferer Was seized Wit
shooting pains in the head, which Dc
came more asd more severe, trtqaertl
causing loss Of sleep. Following Tn
symptom came loss Of appetite, and II
unfortunate young man soon hsd ersv
ing for indigestible and highly spice
food, the eating Of which naturally esn'
ed still further arrangement OF the cige:
I tive organs. As it looks At present. no
ever, the mania would appear to be on ID
! increase.
SURPzIsE il the essence of VIII b.
I somehow when o man Is climbing dow
a ladder in an awful hurry, and neve
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