The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-04-10


He sleeps III. dreams much. and
liable, like a child. to aight terror
As to exercise, he can work as we
as ever, but thinks he tires NOR
than he should, and he adds finally
Il used to be as brave as any body
but now I am afraid of everything 2
Since he gave up cigar making b
has been slowly gaining ground"
We ask indulgence for the abov
dry details. but it eevers the whol
case. Smoking is certainly the prin
cipal cause of nervousness in man
The writer of this article has had hi
attention called to the effect Of smok
ing on the mucus membrane of th,
mouth, and on the teeth. In almos
every instance, in the mouth of
man who has been a constant smoke
for twenty or thirty years, you vii
find the mucus membrane, and ever
the bone. destroyed over the inside
or palatine rOots of the teeth, from
the effects of nicotine. T
All athletes, while in training, ab
stain from smoking. In the military
schools of the civilized world. smok
ing is efectually prohibited. Nc
smoker who was ever trained severe
ly for a race, fer game, or a fight
need be told that smoking lowers the
tone Of the system and diminishes
all the forces of the body. He is as
conscious Of it as a. boy is of the
effects Of his first cigar. No intelll.
gent smoker doubts that the fumes
af tobacce are hostile to the vital
principle. All smokers remember
how cur first cigar sickehed us, and
old smokers often speak OF the III
effects of '' smoking too much )" and
many have risen in revolt against
their tyrant, given away their pipes,
and lived freemen long eRough to
become conscious that their whole
being had been torpid and was alive
again. Let who will deny that smok-
ing is unfriendly to life, smokers will
not question it, unless they are very
ignorant iadeed. or very young.
The cost of tobacco ought per-
haps to be considered before we
conclude whether or not it pays to
smoke, since every man who smokes
not only pays his share of the whole
expense of the weed TO mankind.
but he also supports and justifes
in incurring that expense.
In Ripley & Dana's CycIepedia it is
asserted that the consumption of
cigars in Cuba-the mere consump-
tion-anounts to ten cigars per day
for every man, woman and Guild. on
.he island. Besides. Cuba exports
two billions of cigars a year, which
vary in price from twenty cents each
in gsld) to tive cents. Holland,
where much of the tobacco used in
smoky Germany is manufactured,
it is said, one million poor
people in the business. In the Uni
led States the weed exhausts four
thousand acres of excellent
and and employs fifty thousand
sickly and cadaverous cigar and to-
Dacco makers.
1t is computed that the world is
now producing one thousand millions
pounds OF tobacco every year, at
a total cost of five hundred millions
of dollars. To this must be added
she cost of pipes, and a long cata-
IOgue of accessories. In the London
there were four amber
mouth pieces, valued at two hundred
and fifty guineas each. Think Of it.
his Eve hundred millions per an
aum comes out Of the worlds sur.
plus. No wonder times are hard.
Five hundred millions every year
wasted in puffs of smoke. ~
Man, it must be confessed after.
laving been in business for SO many
thousand years, is still in very mar
'ow circumstances. just think what
! small, mean, precarious, grudging
support we give to the best things
# life. if they are of the kind which
must be supported out of our sur
,lns si egha issat asaw 20 gvsfaa 8
+ Many smoker will discover when
It last he breaks the bond of his
ilavery. that his pipe and cigar we're
eally the power that kept him down
physically and financially.
t befuddles his brain and destroys
lis memory. It injuries digestion,
nd calls for . prefnsion of ingenious
aud other abominable trash
md the universal craving for artii,
ial aids to digestion, such as catsnp,
auces. whiskey, wine, beer. tea and
,offee. m faaE a
The question is, can man who
las been in the habit of smoking
wenty cigars or pipes a day break
,f without relapse into some worse
labit-opium or whiskey? The wri.
er has no plan 10 propose. but has
ried to present the question II all
IS phases, so That intelligent persons
will be brought to serious consider
Ition ef the matter, and should this