Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-12-22

On the subject Of the use Of tobacco
II. II. Mcdonald, OF San Francisco,
publishes the following in interesting
leaflets:
Smoking, chewing and snufling are
the chief ways OF using tobacco, but
smoking Ia the most prevalent mole,
and by far the most hurtful OF all.
Tobacco smoke sends It's poison Into
the lungs through the breath, and
polaons the blood OF the smoker. IL II
like breathing poisoned air, aud the
system feels II Immediately.
smoking tobacco weakens the nerv.
Gus powers, favors u dreamy and lmbe-
cilo state OF mind, sinking its victim
into a state OF maudlln Inactivity and
self.enJoyment OF his Vice.
The smoke cannot escape the poison
Of tobacco; II gets into his blood and
affects every organ and hbre OF his
frame.
Iu consequences, excessive smoking,
long persisted In, ~ Injurious In the
Highest degree, and the pernicious
practice, II begun early In life, II
enough TO sap the strength OF mind
aud body.
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properties OF tobacco smoke " that n
frogs or birds arc confined In II, they
will die from its effects In short time.
Reliable physicians assert that young
infants have been killed In the same
manner by ignorant parents.
Burning tobacco does not destroy Its
poisons; instead, II helps bring them
out and distribute them where they
will do the most harm.
Tobacco smoke Is composed chiefly OF
nicotine, carbonic acid, carbonic oxide
aud ammonia gases, and carbon or
scots.
Nicotine Ia q powerful poison. Car
bonic acid tends TO produce drowsiness
and headache. Carbonic oxide causes
q tromulous movement OF the muscles,
also OF the heart. Ammonia excites
the EAllvary glands and makes the
mouth, throat and tongue hot aud dry.
Nicotine lowers the circulation,
| quickens the breathing, weakens the
heart and muscles aud Ia exhausting
to the vital forces. IL would kill boys
and men when they first begin TO
smoke, except that II acts rs an emetic
and the stomach becomes Injured TO II =.
The effects u tobacco are similar to
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Gus system at first, but reader II more
feeble and Irritable In time, aud requlr.
ing the temporary quiet OF the cigar or
pipe. II therefore helps deaden the
smokers feelings, and he goes on in-
Juring his health until he is beyond
hope Of recovery.
Tobacco does not affect every one In
precisely the same way, ms II acts most
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body. One victim may become blind
or nearly 20, another deaf, u third have
tumors or cancer, n fourth have heart
disease, aud u fifth may suddenly be-
come helpless or die Of paralysis.
rhe whole nervous system gets out
Of order, sleep II broken, the will
power and the memory lost or weak
ened, resulting In soitoning OF the brain
or insanity.
DIR. James G.. Jackson, who had
treated many thousands OF cares OF TO-
bacco poisoning, says there's no habit
OF the American people 50 destructive
to their physical vigor ami their moral
chnractc as the US. OF tobacco.
Twenty thousand men aud boys die
each year In the United States from
the effects OF tobacco, and all who
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degree.
OF those who are injured moderately
we never hear, aud In most cases tn,
sufferers do not know the cause Of thei
slice plessness, loss Of appetite or genera
feeling OF worthlessness.
Yet II Ia without doubt tho reason
why 30 many promising boys max,
very ordinary men. II takes the keer
edge from their minds, II robs them Of
ambition, of push, In short NJ the energy
necessary TO success Ia life.
DIR. Humphrey says: Tobacco IL 0
narcotic plant which no brute will eat
which affords no nutrlment, which
every healthy stomach loathes, III
cruelty drugged into submission. Il
stupeiies the brain, skaters the nerves
destroys the coats OF the stomach
GREATS an Unsuitable Thirst for stimu
lants, and prepares the system for fa,a
disesse.D
Or. Justin Edwards declares: "No
much can be done Ia behalf Of the tenn
perance cause until there Is an an
li-narcotlc movement, PARTICULAR,
against tobacco, tho ally Of intemper
ance."
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