The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-01-29
CIG1RETTE SMOKING.

CItlNEIIES SNOAlNG.
Increase OF the Habit in Ten Years.
What Physicians Say Of Its Effects.
There is a growing belief that tho
habit of cigarette smoking has bad
effect upon the health of those i'd
dicted to it. Within the past ten
years the habit has increased SO
rapidly that the sale of cigars and
tobacco for pipe-smoking, has been
materially decreased. Ono cause
has been the popular desire to
economist another, n peculiar fas-
cination possessed by tho cigarette
for novices in emoking, who regard
it as less formidable than O cigar :;
third, because it is the most CON
vonient way of taking "whiff' be-
tween the acts at the theatre, or in q
few minutes of leisure anywhere
and fourth, because the inheling
OF the smoke gratifes taste not
to be satisfied in any other way.
Ten years ago cigarettes wcro
smoked only by foreigners, and
those associating much with them,
or by people who had acquired the
habit while abroad. Now the habit
las extended even to many invoter-
ato cigar smokers. Ten years ago
it was only possible to obtain ono
brand of cigarettes-the Cuban
from New York tobacco dealers {;
now it is stated that there are three
hundred and thirty eight different
brands in the market.
Several of the prominent physi-
clans of New York unite in declar-
ing that cigarette smoking is much
moro injurious than cigar smoking,
because the smoke is generally in~
haled, and often elected through the
nose. 1t has particularly harmful
local effect on the mucuous mem-
brano of the nasal passage. People
who use cigarettes are much more
liable than others to be afflicted with
local irritations that produce ca
tarrh. In persons of nervous tenn
peraments the doctors say cigarette
smoking always produces constitu-
tional effects. The pulse is increas-
ed in frequency, becomes smaller
than is natural, and is irregular.
Such persons are said by physicians
to have ''tobaoso pulse" and
"tobacco heart. The action of the
pulse in this respect is not to be
mistaken. Persons who constantly
smoke cigarettes, are said by physi-
clans to be easily excited, and to
have a tendency to vertigo, and
dimness Of vision, besides being
troubled by dyspepsia. Bronchial
and throat disease are much moro
readily caused by cigarette smoking
than by cigar smoking, and during
the past six or seven years O large
increase in diseases of the mir pas
sages, due alone to this habit, has
been obse, we'd. Physicians state that
there is not one tiftieth os much of
the mucuous surface covered by ci.,
gar smoke as by the inhaled smoke
of q cigarette. Excessive indulgence
in any form of tobacco smoking may
produce general paralysis, while by
enfeebling the the circulation, lows
cring tho vitality of the system, and
interfering with assimilation of food,
it tends to produce anmmia, which
is one of the first steps toward soft
ening of the brain. Vertigo, when
resulting from smoking strong
cigars, or from the inhaling Of
cigarette smoke, is due to anmmia,
or in other words, to diminished
supply of blood to the brain.
By some it is claimed that the
paper wrapping the cigarettes is as
hurtful as the tobacco. This claim
is grounded upon the belief that the
products of the imperfect combus-
tion of the paper or other vegetable
fibre, are pyro-gallic and pyro-lig-
neous acids, which MAKE their press
ence unpleasantly felt in the mucu-
GUS membrane.
The last great burglary in Balti-
more was remarkably skilful and
successful crime. The burglars
dug through q brick wall into a
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