The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-04-18

Why no You Smoke 7


The universal Yankee nation are Gu
rious people, very much inclined 70 aN
the question, why2 We walk about the
streets and we see scores of men walking |
or lounQing on the corners with cigars or
mines in their mouths Farmers driving |
through streets, draymen, expressmen
gentlemen in their carriages, all classes
smoking. A car Gs attached to each rali'
way train for the special accommodation
of smokers We step into the postofnce
for our mail, and we find a dozen men
and boys smoking and loading the ayr
with the fumes OF tobacco TO poison the
women and children who are not SO ior
tn iate as to have persons hardened 70
tn use Of this narcotic TO send ior tnelr
m Ill Seeing all these things ABOUT u
it W natural to ask why 90 men
smoker
not for any good they derive from
tobacco Men OF science are pretty well
agreed that tobacco has in it no nourish
m-pt and produces no beneficial results
upon the system. 1t owes its peculiar
effects to nicotine, the essential oil oi
tobacco, which 10 powerful poison ID
deed so deadly 10 il that what Is con
tanned in single cigar if retracted ana
administered in pure state, would SUI
fice to kill two men,"
One OF the effects Of the introduction
of this poison into the system 10 TO In
crease the action OF the heart. Some ex-
periments have shown that the increased
labor thus imposed on the heart Is as
much as fifty per cent We are told tnai
"the effect upon the heart Is not caused
by the direct action upon that organ. out
bv parali-ing the minute vessels which
form the batteries OF the nervous system.
Thus paralized they can no longer offer
effectual resistance, and the heart freed
from their control, increases the rspidlty
of its strokes, expanding the vessels with
an apparent occasion, but real waste oil
force.
For such reasons as this we are told
that tobacco is the real cause OF many
sudden deaths from heart disease and
kindred causes.
Men cannot smoke from any real good
th.v derive from tobacco, for IT does no
good.
Neither do men smoke on account OF a
natural craving tor tobacco. except I'D
the case OF perrons who have become
saturated with tobacco from its constant
use by those about them. The hrst use
of il ia sickening in the extreme. the
whole system rebels against it. and when
first introduced into the stomach all
hands are usually called TO the pumps to
expel the poison.
There seem 10 be some leading reasons
why bows learn to smoke, notwithstand
ing that tobacco is hurtful and nauseat'
ing. one reason is the example OF Older
nersons. Bows see their fathers, Older
brothers. and men they are accustomed
to look up to as examples, pulling theiI
cigars and pipes. After dinner, for ex
ample, they sit down for smoke, and
the boys naturally reason that there
must be something good in 1t, or these
persons would not enjoy il so much. %
they experiment with pieces OF rush OF
old pipes or cigar stumps till they car
smoke as well as older men.
Example is doubtless powerful caus'
of smoking altogether, but few boy
would acquire the hurtful and filth.
habit.
Another reason why men smoke 10 Z
be found in the social power OF cigar
Perhaps we ought to have said the lac
of social power in men. Women do no
need to smoke in order TO be social Bu
since a company OF men need the nov
ing bowl" or the lighted cigar to max
them social, does IL not reveal lack
social power in themselves2
This is not confined to the unculture'
A company of college students and SONS
times OF literary gentlemen. no less tina
OF day laborers, find the cigar essential
social after dinner chat
Cannot some wise man invent an en-
cient and less hurtful means OF edioilli
to take the place of wine cup or
cigar2
Another reason why men smoke 10
be found in the power OF habit. "
have already seen how boys form u
habit Of smoking, and once formed tn
yery readily surrender to it, 'Tis not
much because men do not know tn
smoking is filthy and hurtiul as becau
they will not try to break the fetters
habit, that men continue to smoke.
unfreouently we hear men making su
remarks as II would give good cow II
/. could be rid of my appetite for tobacco
Such men can be rid OF this appetI
keep their cow and also save the mon
they now spend for tobacco. Stamp I
filthy weed into the dust, and say IN {
strength Of your manhood End in I
strength of God that you will ney
touch the poison again, with such re
luton half the work is accomplished.
few weeks of resolute struggle while
poison 10 being eradcated from the .
tenn, and the work will be accomplish'
We blush for the want of manhood a
of courage in so many who surrender
this poison, plant and remain slaves
their lives with never a manly effort
be freemen III any smoker can give q
better reasons than those mention
why he smokes, we shall be very glad
know them.