, 1880-11-19
PUGET SOUND ARGUS.
C0M NicATED.

EDITOR ARGUS
IquoteIthe following lines and ask yeu
the Siudness of using your columns so
that can be heard by all the subjects of
that injurious habit-chewing and smok-
ing tobacco. am not tobacco chewer
and smoker and do not see why thous-
ands cannot get along without it as well
as can. They say, ''Oh, l can't stop it."
You can stop il, only you won't. know
many people who have stopped it in a
little while. The quotation is as follows:
EVERY atom and tissue of our bodies Is |
formed from the blood, and the blood is
made from what we put in the mouth
Blood made from bread and batter and
milk, aud meats. and all natural and
wholesome food helps to build up the
system in q strong and proper manner;
but blood that is produced by tobacco is
not only unnatural and does no good
whatever to the body, but does harm by
introducing into the veins deadly pois-
on. Blood is good or bad according to the
material it is made from. Accordingly,
blood from that which is itself poison,
must be poisonous, unless the poison has
been extracted.
There is poison in the potato but this is
destroyed by heat. In tobacco there is no
protection against the poison which it
contains, and the deadly matter goes right
into the blood. If enough tobacco be
eaten to cause death, death would ensue
at once. Fortunately, men do not chew
it in sufficient quantities to produce death,
but they do consume enough OF the vile
plant TO do themselves great injury. Nor
Is this injury any the less real because
slow. The harm done the body because
OF tobacco is permanent, and year after
Year becomes worse and worse. Because
boys do not see men who chew tall down
dead as men who take strychnine do,
they are apt to shake the head obviously
when told by their elders that tobacco is
poison. spit a mouthful OF tobacco into
the mouth OF some small animal and il
vii! die. Men-the larger animals-do
not on the use OF a bit at time, becaue
what they take is small and the damage
done them byit is partly repaired by the
good, strong blood which their food
makes, which they take into the body by
Tie side Of this poisoned blood of which
am speaking. Every mOuthtul of to-
bacco juice contains a certain quantity of
nicotine, which is virulent poison. In
agne man opening his veins with a pen-
knife and letting arsenic or strychniue
inIo himself! But what is the difference
except that the mineral poison would kill
him at once. and the vegetable poison
tobacco-may kill him ai,y time if he go
oll with it aud use it excessively. If even
lhr wafer we drink affects the quantity
and the quality of the blood surely tobar-
co Juice must.
The idea of any man drinking Impure
muddy water is unpleasant, even to think
Of but what is bad water compared with
the Juice OF tobacco? You may think
that chewers do not swallow the juice of
the weed. They do. They swallow some,
and more, too, than you or they ;hiuk.
With all the amount they eXpectorate
from the mouth, some, notwithstanding
is swallowed. Besides there is large
amount absorbed. This process OF ab-
sorption | must stop to explain. You
will bear in mind that all over the inside |
OF the mouth are glands in great number.
The duty OF these glands is to do some
what as a sponge does when put in water,
suck up the liquid that they touch. All
the saliva that touches is more or less
filled with the juices of what we chew
whatever 1t is-and these juices OF course
float around IN the mouth, and as they
touch the glands are more or less absorbed
or sucked up by them. So by partly
swallowing little and absorbing n good
deal more, the system in the course of a
days chewing gets good deal Of the
poison OF the tobacco juice taken into it.
As said before, every drop taken into
the body goes to bood-blood OF the poor
est sort-bood thar not only does no good
toward building thu body up, keeping it
healthy and long-lived, but which, on the
contrary, does harm, poisons the system,
renders the tissues OF the body Liable to
disease, weakens certain functions, in
creases the likelihood Of insanity, OF sud
den and even of premature danIh If