The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-05-12
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THE TOBACCO PROBLEM.
AND INTELLECTUAL VIEW.

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THE TOBACCO PROBLEM.
PHYSICAL AND INTELLECTUAL VIEW
BY META LANDER.
The testimony as to the injurious
influence of tobacco on body and mind
is clear and overwhelming.
In 1862, the Emperor Napoleon,
learning that paralysis and insanity
had increased with the increase of the
tobacco revenue, ordered an examina-
ton of the schools and colleges, and,
finding that the average standing in
both scholarship and character was
lower among those who used the weed
than among the abstainers, issued an
edict forbidding its use in all the ma
tional institutions.
Since the fall of the Empire, the
minister of public instruction, finding
from the professors in the scientific
and other schools that in every grade
the students who did not smoke out
ranked those who did, and that the
scholarship of the smokers steadily
deteriorated as the smoking continued,
has issued circular to the teachers in
both colleges and schools forbidding
tobacco, as injurious to physical and
intellectual development.
French physicians and prominent
men of science are In agreement upon
the same view, and also in the convic-
ton that it sows the seeds of many
diseases. It is asserted by member
of the Paris Academy of Medicine
that statistics show that in exact
proportion with the increased con-
sumption of tobacco is the increase of
diseases in the nervous centers-in-
sanity, general paralysis, paraplegia,
and certain cancerous affections"
Prof. Lizars, of Edinburgh, emu
merates fearful catalogue Of diseases
which he proves to be the result of
tobacco, adding:
Its 1t is painful, painful to contemplate how many promising
IN beore they manhoo
What an advance in intellectual
and moral power should we behold If
our young men could be induced to
follow the example Of Sir Isaac New
ton, who refused to smoke because he
would make no necessities for him
SELF; a sentiment worthy to be en-
graved over the doors of every college
and school-house in the land.
DR.. Willard Parker, an undoubted
authority, says:
to the but postiSelv eeets Of
ea o @ hs Sose nys
in it. Cigar and snuff manufacturers have come under
persons cannot recover soon ana IN healthy
from cases of injury or fever. They more apt
paralysis. The is true, also those who Smoke
or chew much
Equally strong testimony is given
in The Lancet, by DR.. J. Piddock,
physician to dispensary in st. Giles,
London. Indeed, the highest medical
authorities, including DIR. Taylor, the
great English surgeon and author, are
agreed that tobacco is a poison for
both brain and heart, producing
paralysis, apoplexy and heart disease.
Prof. Brewer, in detailing the pains
and penalties attending its use, affirms
that nicotine-one of the subtlest of
poisons, single drop Of which will
kill dog-is the element that deter
mines the strength of tobacco. At
Dartmouth Park, England, an old
wooden pipe was given to a three
year old boy to blow soap-bubbles
with, the pipe being first carefully
washed out. The boy was taken i'll
and in three days died, his death,
according to medical evidence being
caused by the nicotine which he had
sucked in while blowing the bubbles.
A little child picked up a quid
that had been thrown on the floor.
and, taking it for a raisin, put it into
her mouth, dying Of the poison the
same day.
Bocarme. of Belgium, was murdered
in two minutes and a half by a little
nicotine, or alkali Of tobacco A very
moderate quantity introduced into the
system, or even applying the moisten-
ed leaves over the stomach, has sud-
denly extinguished life. Indeed, so
thoroughly does tobacco poison the
blood that, according to the testimony
of a physician to a dispensary in St.
Giles, "leeches are instantly killed by
the blood of smokers; so suddenly
that they drop off dead Immediately
they are applied"
w
it is pronounced perilous for delicate
person even to sleep in a room with
habitual smoker
Radically, this weed ranks among
the deadliest Of polsons. Writes
Brodie:
1t powerfully controls the action of the heart and
arteries producing invariably a weak, tremulous
pulse, with the apparent symptoms of approachin!
death; {
Says another physician:
five wish at any time to PROSTATE the powers {,
life in the most sudden and awful manner we havtS
but to admins dose of tobacco, and object
accomplished. q
Such are its characteristics, making :.
its prescription permissible only in
the EXTREMIST cases and with the ut
most caution. Yet this most power
full, most fatal G; all drugs it is which
has come to be regarded by thousands
as a daily necessity-more to them
than meat or drink, OF any other
earthly good.
Writes the late DR.. Marshall Hall:
Tie Smoker coEno e,copc the poison of tobacco. 1t
1ts his blood, travels the whole round of his