Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-09-01
FOR TOBACCO USERS.
Startling Facts for the Consumers
of the Pernicious Cigarette.

W. ucW eases udNt Dttu duutu
within a few weeks to the hundreds al
ready on record, in which the inordin-
ate use of the cigarette has been
charged with producing fatal results.
Whether the charge is well founded, in
the strictest sense of the phrase, is a
question on which doctors and experts
must differ, but there is no disputing
the fact that If the appetite for the
cigarette had been strangled in these
cases, life would certainly have been
prolonged. The late Mr.. c. f. WoerIs-
hotter was an incessant cigarette
smoker, and while some of his physic-
ians are slow to admit that this caused
his death, his associates who knew his
habits OF life well. have expressed very
emphatic opinions to the contrary. In
the other instance the victim was a
newspaper boy fifteen years old, who
smoked two packages Of cigarettes be-
fore his breakfast, then fell down un-
conscious and foamed at the mouth.
He fingered for time, but failed to
rally, and the doctors admitted that he
died from nicotine poisoning. So gen.
eral has the habit Of smoking become
in recent years that there are very few
persons who are not interested in know
ing what are the precise risks and dan
gers they incur in indulging in the
weed.
A prominent physician. who is quoted
as an authority in blood poisoning and
nervous disorders, SAID: ''There is no
adage more true than that which de-
clares that what is one mans meat is
L nnnfhar paanfs nnh fhIl h1a
special force when we speak of tobacco.
Some can not touch the weed without
suffering, while others may use it with
perfect safety almost to excess"
What are the evil effects following
from inJudicious smoking?'
''The first perceptible effect is palpi
tation of the heart, which sometimes
becomes very violent. If the smoker
does not toke warning and stop on the
appearance of this system, nausea,
vomiting and great lassitude will fol-
| low, Eventually the trouble will be-
come chronic, the throat will grow raw
ard sore, the stomach will become una
ble to retain or digest food, and the
most deplorable state of exhaustion re-
suits. The blood is not poisoned, how
ever, in the technical medical sense of
the term. 1t is only an evanescent
poison which will gradually disappear
under tonic treatment when the smok-
ing habit is dropped.
"What is the most hurtful form of
indulgence in tobacco?"
beyond all controversy. the cigar
ette."
''For what reason?"
"The cigarette is responsible for al
most all the evils caused by tobacco.
Growing boys commence to use them
before their physical powers are devel-
Oped, the coating of their stomachS be-
comes ruined, and their growth stunted.
They will often become weak, puny
men, and In the interest of humanity a
stringent law should be passed making
it a penal ofIense for boys to smoke or
for dealers to sell cigarettes to them.
Such law Is III force in France. Ci- |
garettes are so cheap that every boy
can procure them, and they are now |
very generally sold In broken packages, |
so that they can buy one or two cents
worth. This is nothing short of crimi-
nal. The cigarette IS worse than the |
cigar or pipe, because the burning
paper, which is often said TO be poison
Gus, adds an extra irritant. Cigarette |
smokers, for some reason, never know
when to stop, and almost invariably
drift into excess. Some years ago chew
ing was all the rage, but it Is now con-
sidered vulgar habit, and unfortu-
nately cigarette-smoking, which is far
more hurtful, has taken its place"
hot cpnnl- dime fha I
sight2"
'Smoke affects the sight through the
optic nerves, and some few cases are on
record where men have been rendered
stone blind by the excessive use of to-
bacco, but such cases are very rare"
DR.. Shrady Is moderate smoker.
He said the extent to which a man
could safely indulge In the use of to-
bacco depended entirely on his tempera-
ment and constitution, and that in this
regard every person must be law unto
himself. 1t would be absurd to make
any general rule. Persons of weak
frame and highly nervous tempera-
ment should avoid smoking altogether
of the weed. In some cases smoking
may be of positive benefit when not in
dulged in to excess He said that young
boys should not be permitted to use to-
bacco in any form until their systems
are developed, and was unqualified in
the denunciation of the cigarette, which
stunted the growth and impaired the
vitality of the young.
A gentleman of sedentaTy habits of
life, VINO has been a heavy cigarette
smoker for many years, and who dropped
the habit on the advice of his physician,
gave his experience. lie said: 81 found
myself indisposed for work, unable to
relish my meals, and generally Frustrated
but continued to smoke on as usual,
never dreaming that the cigarette was
suited several doctors, who could not
divine the cause of my trouble. At
last one of them detected that 1 was a
a cigarette smoker, and told me must
make up my mind to stop, or to die.
At this time my heart was palpitating
one hundred and twenty to the minute.
| discarded the cigarette, went under
tonic treatment for few months, and
to-day | am as well as ever"
The editor OF a publication devoted
solely TO the tobacco interest insisted
that there was nothing hurtful in the
use of tobacco, and In proof Of his as
sertion cited the fact that smokers and
chewers are as long-liyed as other peO-
pie. OF the small boy and the cigar
ette, he said: "We have always op-
posed cigarette smoking by youths in
our columns. Something should be
lone to prevent boys from smoking.
As a rule, those who indulge in the
vice at an early age become dwarfed
In mind and body, and good-for-noth-
ing men; and their children, should
hey live to have any, will be more
.ffeminate than themselves The law
should step in and stop this epidemic
If juvenile cigarette smoking"