Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-23
WHOLE NO. 1O,845.
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The Effects of roha eco


The effects of tobacco differ widely ac-
cording, Iirst, to the individual and racial
and climatic conditions, and according to
the method of consumption. and to cir
eumstances of dosage and concentration.
IN PROOF OF individual differences we have
a mass OF every day testimony. Il could
never work unless ! smoked" saws one
and another Tobacco never agrees with
me. though | have tried it often.n Only
on the view that effects vary according to
dlferences OF race, can we account for the
lact that some communities readily adopt
the habit and defend it, while others find
no pleasure IN 1t, and denounce iU-as in
the case of certain American States.
Climatic variations are still more striking,
In temperate and cold countries tobacco
creates thirst, and thereby encourages
drinking habits. In tropical ciimes it has
no such effect on the smoker, and the taste
for alcohol rarely follows its use in those
iatitudes. Very eminent observers have.
indeed. attributed the proyerbiar sobriety
OF Eastern peoples to the use of tobacco.
These are important qualifications, having
reference to the smoker himself and
ms Surroundings, and modifying
the effects of his indulgence in
the old proYerb: "One mans food is an
other mans poison But, further, the eff
fects vary according to the method of con-
sumption; and here we touch question
OF great interest, bearing upon several
sumulant narcotics, and that is the ques-
ton OF chewing. All solid foods undergo
this process in the mouth, and, of our chief
products, tobacco, cocoa, opium. and betel
are also chewed. The act OF chewing pow
ertully affects the nerves of the mouth, be-
ing branches of the fifth pair of nerves, and
IN close connection with the brain. While
hos Ion H.. -
nerves III the mouth excite when stimu-
lated by food, the pleasurable sensations of
taste, it is more recent discovery that the
chewing OF solids produces through the
nth nerve certain stimulant impressions
upon the nervous centers. One of the con-
sequent effects is a quickened circulation in
the brain. What light this throws upon
the habit of chewing, the world oyeri
The child, whose one anxiety is TO get
something between its teeth, may be ex-
employing a want and an instinct, the
same as prompts the Egyptian, Malay,
and Hindu, from infancy to age, to
gnaw at the sugar cane. Again, many
persons seek TO produce an analogous
effect by stroking the chin or nose when
puzzled or absorbed i'll thought In such
cases, doubtless, the unconscious act has
for its purpose stimulation for the brain
through the mediation of sensitive nerves.
Both snuffing and chewing tobacco prob
ably exert this local influence far more
powerfully than smoking The cons.itu-
tional effects III the three cases are nearly
the same. Among our sailors chewing
the quid y is extremely common, and seems
to date from time when smoking was
prohibited from danger to the wooden
walls" Methods of smoking exercise an
important influence on the effect produced.
Smoked in the European fashion, accord
ing to which the fumes of the burning leaf
are sucked directly into the mouth, the es-
sentia1 principles of the drug, including
nicotine, find free entrance into the sys-
tenn. This is obviated by the Turks, Hin
dus,, Chinese and others, who draw the
smoke through. layer Of wafer, in sonIe
form OF water ppes.-.o1- "a tlse hookah
and narghile. BY tins veTy wise method
the narcotic effects are far more Gifi5al5 20
produce and altogether less il extent.
Hence it would be of great and undeniable
advantage to introduce the water system
into this counry.-[The Nineteenth Gen.
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