The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-08
Tae Tobacco Habit-Nioomania.


Editor Morning Ne,0s: We are told that
"Man is fearfully and wonderfully made"
and if he were not so the race would have
died out long ago. 1t is astonishing to
know how much the human system can
bear in the way of abuse and live on. And
it is a wonderful fact that the more refined
a people is the greater the abuse they can
stand. The negro, the Indian and other
coarsely organized people cannot begin to
abuse themselves as we do without dying
off rapidly. They break-there is no men
tai elasticity In their makeup; and we see
the fact in the way the lunatio ssylums are
being filed with negroes. Their brains are
upset very soon.
In inebriate asylums there are men who
can drink two bottles Of whisky day, and
one bottle is the average with the general
run of patients. OF course that il not per-
mitted when under treatment. In Syria,
Austro-Hungary, those who work in the
arsenic mines eat arsenic as a stimulant,
and it is said that a regular arsenic eater
can take teaspoonful day. The peasant
girls take it to increase their personal at
fractions. The children soon learn to eatit.
1t shows how the system can and does resist
poison, for nature is ever trying to build
and right its abused law. But there is point
where nature ceases to act, and the person
Oecome5 thoroughly diseased.
Anything taken into the system which
does not go the making of blood, bone,
muscle, tissue or flesh, is a poison. A
stimulant may have pleasant effect, but ID
is poison nevertheless. Alcohol is poison,
but very important medicine when
properly used. Tobacco has several medi-
cinal qualities, and very useful ut times.
The active principle of tobacco is nicotine,
deadly poison. What 10 nicotine? 1t is a
colorless transparent oil. intensely poison
Gus, and of a burning taste, even when
very much diluted. Tobacco contains it in
proportions varying from 2 TO s per cent.
Havana tsbscoo contains the smallest
amount, the finest containing 2 per cent,
and hence the fine, fragrance and flavor.
The smoker is not poisoning himself as he does
when he smokes tobacco with and per
cent OF nicotine, such as our North Caro-
ina and Virginia tobacco contains. Smok
ing is more dangerous to the nerves and
general system than chewing. But both are
poisonous, from the fact that the effects
are seen and felt in different ways.
All knowledge comes from observation
and investigation. Let US see what medical
authority has to say on the effects of TO-
bacco. Age has a great deal to do with the
matter. After a man has passed 30 years
MS system is fully and thoroughly devel-
oped. and the subtitle influences Of alcohol
and nicotine do not affect the system so
InJuriously as when boys and young men
talnper with such poisons. 1t is all i'm
portant that growth should be natural, nor
iInal' ordinary and sanitary. Save the
poys and girls, and you give to the world
neaIthy men and women. Let the boys
and girls abuse or disease themselves and
tue curse OF abnormal constitutions follows.
a, AS nicotine is poison, see how 1t affects
' sne system in its initiatory results, produce
InH giodlness, faintness, nausea. vomiting,
purging. with great debility, retching, the
sBln becoming cold. clammy. the muscles
tels1, the pulse feeble, and sometimes con-
Eulsions. SO much for the beginner; SO
nuoh coming from nature and the stomach
\ declare that the system is being poisoned.
Notnlng that builds up the system acts that
ray' But let US look at some other
PAD symptoms. The work of
me poison is done between the ages
- Ten and twenty-five years. Wehave from
medical authority diseases known, as
{pharyngitis, Inflammation of the pharynx
membranous and muscular walls beneath
me base Of the skull, into which the nose
ano mouth open; then dyspepsia, palpita-
yton OF the heart and general nervousness.
form OF blindness known as tobacco
llnaurosis, or loss or decay of the sight,
sltnout any visible defect in the eye, loss
power in the optic nerve; or amblyopia,
4 maurosis.
Inc reader will please bear In mind these
re the initiatory effects, when the boy and
oung man is filling his system with nico-
ne; Feeling good, because he sees that
Is father and minister use tobacco, and
ave great praise for the pleasant effects.
have heard ministers who were warm,
Gter and denunciatory about the habit of
a INK, pitch into the drinker and seller Of
a iuor, but never a word about the bad eff
cts or tobacco, because they themselves
s. Te slaves to the habit. Whenever
hear a minister talk temperance,
"a Is slave to tobacco. we feel
ie saying to him: My friend, will
please set the example by controlling
ylr habit for tobocco aud cease TO be I'm
ample to the boys? Think of Jesus, st.
h1i or st. Peter going about with cigars
llneir pockets or plugs Of tobacco. Only
sen5ie hint to those who may feel that the
'moking destroys the teeth. Il is denied
lsome. Let US see what tie laws Of ma