St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-26
GREAT SMOKERS.
Politicians and Publicists Who Delight
III Using Tobacco.
Many Men Who Smoke More Cigars in Day
Than did Gen. Grant.

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If Gen. Grants use of tobacco was exces-
sive, there are>very many men in seeming
vigorous health, and of very active habits,
who must regard themselves as very intern
perate users of the stimulant. Many men
smoke more cigars day than Gen. Grant
was accustomed to do, although physicians
say it is not the number of cigars SO much as
the strength of them that affects the health.
Among public men it is the exception to
find one who does not use tobacco in one
form or another, sometimes in two ways, and
almost all of them firmly believe that tobacco
does not hurt them. Judge Kelley's case
has been cited as one where cancer was
caused by the excessive use of tobacco, but
he told the writer that the cancerous affec
ton of the cheek from which he suffered was
due to the habit Ire had of going to sleep with
a quid of tobacco tucked into his cheek, and
resting his head on that side. Judge Kelley,
now 20 years old, smoked and used the best
fne-cut immediately for fifty years. The
operation which he submitted to in Paris re-
stored his health, and he has abandoned the
habit.
Vice President Colfax for many wears
smoked ten or fifteen very strong cigars
every day. He was suddenly attacked by a
serious vertigo while vice president, and he
attributed it to the narcotic poison. He at
once stopped smoking; yet Vice President
Wilson, who never used tobacco, was stricken
almost precisely as Mr.. Colfax was. The
late Sapotor Gorpnotar franuopt1v omol.a6
two boxes of cigars week, and his sudden
collapse was attributed by those who did not
know how for twenty-five years he had
burned the candle at both ends, to that
habit: That Mr.. Carpenter should live to
the age of So after living a life of almost con-
slant defiance of all the laws of health is re-
garded by those who knew him as remarkable.
Siro Delmonico and Mr.. Ives, W ell-known
manufacturer of New Haven, died of per-
fectly well-defned symptoms of narcotic
poisoning, but both were well along in
years, and both were never without the
stimulant.
Ex-President Arthur smokes less than
formerly, lighting his cigar now seldom be-
fore dinner, but when in the late night
hours he was busted with work his com panion
was cigar, sometimes three or four. DR..
Hammond is reported to have once said that
generally three or four cigars after dinner
harmed few men of average constitution, and
Mr.. Arthur thought they did him good. At
all events, all of his messages to congress
were written under the gentle stimulus of
fragrant Havana. Most of Mr.. Arthur's
cabinet officers were good smokers. Mr..
Frelin ghuyscn did not use tobacco, though
the assistant secretary of state, Mr.. Davis,
liked good cigars and plenty of them. To-
bacco was the only thing that ever made
Secretary Chandler turn pale. 1t was a
rank poison to him, and though he tried
many years ago to overcome the evil effects,
as became good politician, yet he never
could. Alcohol, except in almost homeopa
thic doses of the very best wine, affects the
ex-secretary of the navy in the same way.
But Gen. Gresham was great smoker He
smoked on the public streets, at his work
aud wherever he could. Secretary Teller
liked cigar that would last long time and
was not very strong. Secretary Lincoln
smoked good many pretty stiff cigars every
day, and Attorney General Brewster liked
one with body to it.