The Nevada picayune., 1885-04-02
Tobacco Eaters.
sa.
 BY R. C. MOORE.

think that four -ffths of the com muuity are tobacco eaters, not eat CTS but chewers, ,or smokers. Aye, eaters. as much so, as the vile dis ghsting green worm that swallows the poison leaf into it's stomach, for is not the poison of the 0uid and smoke taken up by the blood ves- sels and absorbents of the mouth and carried into the circulation, even in more virulent form than if introduced Ay the stomach' Poison! you say. Yes, poison. Tobacco should never be men tiOn except as a poison; it belongs to a i class of pOisons. It is one Of the most active and fatal, and why
 should it not be called a pois on?
 A person that-is not used to taking
 arsenic takes what many one could taet with impunity and is
 poisoned. A person not used to tobacco, takes an ordinary cud and
 he is as surely poisoned. Tobacco
 is such virnlent poison that doc
 tors who are continually playing
 with boisons, az with so many rat tlesnakes, are afraid of it. It is a reptile whose poisoned fanss are
 barred, and when once set in the
 human vitals cannot be withdrawn as fangs Of other reptiles of the
 class. When a person takes an over dose of opium, he can by evac-
 uations his stomach, be cured but for an over dose of tobacco, there is no such remedy. Every doctor will tell you he is more afraid to
 give tobacco than any other poi son. He neyer gives 1t by the stomach. Sometimes it is used ex. ternally. Many a colt and calf have been killed by rubbing them with tobacao juice to kill the lice. Tobacco is death cr vermln of all kinds. It often used to cXterml-
 nate bed.bugs. Now, don't on the stregnth of this rub your children's heads with tobacco oozc; as d quick way of depopulatinS the vet'
 min, for you will be most likely 10
 depopulate the family at the same time. Dr. Mussey tells of n wo man that rubbed q little tobacco juice on ringwOrm, not three quarters of an inch in diameter, on her little girls face. The child
 would have died if medical aid had not been at hand. If youare of all
 inquiriug turn of mind wish to try physiological experiment.; aal
 happen to have cat that catches no mice, but commits nocturnal burglaries on the cup board, and you are too tenderhearted to kill in the tedious way of shooting or drowning.itj just drop drop ofni;- otine or nicotianine on it's tongue
 and in a minute or two the cat will be dead. Now what are these eur sed hebanons' with such jaw-crack
 CT, doctor namesl you ask; they are nothing more or less than the ac- tive principles of tobacco. Every
 other poison vegetable is content
 with one active poison; but tObac- co has two, two of the most dead- ly posons in the vegetable king dom. Now, l am not trying to scare you Mir. Tobacco eater; if you don't believe me, jnst examine a vegetable chemistry, and try the cat experiment.. But we don't take these poisons, we spit them out and smoke them out" That shows you don't know what you are talking about, and that igno- rance of the real nature of tobacco is the reason, I apprehend that 50 many millions use it so reckless ly' It cannot be possible that so many millions of human belngs would knowingly and habitually use so virulent a poison. tell you again that you take nicotina and nicotianin when you chew or smoke or snuff tobacco, as surely as does the cat when you drop on
 h CT tongue. "Why don't it kill us then!' It will kill you. There are different ways of killing as of killing cat. Ifyou had been a hardhearted man, and cruel to an imals you would have learned kitty to chew tobacco, and thus Kept her suffering for years by the slow workings of the poison, but as surelo have Ri He'd your cat. Be- cause you are not killed outright, you natter yourself that you are
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