The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-17
SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND
PERSONS KILLED
By Poison Every Year In the
United States
And Many More in Europe.

Poisons kill 100000 annually in the
United States, and more than this every
year in Europe. This includes poisons of
tobacco, beer, whisky, arsenic and strych-
nine. Among these poisons tobacco kills
more people than whisky.
The human system seems to demand
either stimulants, sedatives, or narcotics;
and the use of one necessitates the other,
If the use of tobacco or any other narcotic
depresses the neovous system there is an
immediate demand for a stimulant to re-
storethe equilibrium; and visa versa 1t is
estimated that nine hundred and fifty out
Of thousand men use tobacco in some
form. Manufacturers statistics show that
the year 1891 has been the most prosperous
one in the history of the trade in the
United States. The amount spent in this
country last year was a trifle over 5000, :
oO0,OOO. And in the city of Chicago alone
sos, 600 is paid daily for cigars and ciga
rettes. II is commonly understood that
nicotine is the active power in tobacco,
and is more deadly in a sufficient
dose than strychnine, arsenic or NOR
phine. It is in all tobacco, but the
quantity is small or 1t would instantly kin.
The poison does not kill outright. A man
may smoke for years and have no premoni-
ton Of danger until the end is approaching,
and when death occurs 1t spreads the pail
Of obscurity over the change and thus
covers its deadly work for further oppor-
tunity.
The physician is called in and says that
the cause of death was paralysis or heart
disease or Inflammation of the kidneys, etc.
Tobacco is never suspected of being the
direct cause.
The cigarette habit has become so gen.
eral in the past few years that you see
them in the mouths of all classes of people.
both men and boys, from the bootblack to
the statesman. 1t is the very worst soul
''sapping.n body -demoralizing abolnination
of the age. The tobacco used in cigar
cites is largely impregnated with opium
stramouium and bellsdonna. The wrap
per Of each cigarette is generally made of
rice paper, whitened with arsenic Every
day you can read cases in the papers of
death from heart failure caused by the ex-
cessive use OF cigarettes. Already sixteen
states have prohibited their use among
boys-by an act of legislature-and it Is
the duty of the secular and religious press
to denounce the cigarette habit at every
opportunity.
AS with many other Things of a poison
nus nature which the system is forced to
accommodate itself to, the positive harm
is not in its use but only in lis abuse, and
the result Of this must be found in the en-
feebled condition of the nervous system Of
tobacco users.
DR.. Kelley not only discovered cure for
alcoholism and morphineism but also for
the diseased tobacco or cigarette user.
The remedy at once arrests the process
known as insomnia change produced by
nicotine poisoning. 1t repairs the wasted
and debilitsted nerve tissue and assists
every organ Of the body In their functional
work. 1t restores the patient to active
mental force, improves the appetite and
produces restful sleep. It gives back the
freshness of youth in courage and physical
vigor. Gold as q chloride is the only med
ical agent known that win effectually
break up en- inveterste tobacco habit with
out injury to the patient. Already some
twenty patients have received treatment
at the Salt Lake Kelley institute, and In
no single case has the result been anything
but satisfactory, and patients taking treat
mena for the liquor habit may be treatad
for the tobacco habit at the same time.
H. w. BARTELs.