Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-02-22
w. G. T. u. COLUMN.
Morro: "God and Home and Native Land"
THE EFFECTS OF TOBACCO.

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ming out of the mouths of those who
use it. 1t has a great effect upon the
| body.
Some of you use or have used to-
bacco, and those have known some of
the following effects: If you smoked
bed you felt dizzy and uneasy and
when you arose in the morning you
felt unrefreshed, with a dull, heavy
sensation in the head; your tongue
would be more or less coated, with a
j disagreeable taste in your mouth,
would give signs of disordered stom-
ach, and your appetite for breakfast
would be diminished. After you have
smoked for several years (say some
twelve) you will find out that the
! symptoms above described will be in
| creasing SO as to render you unfit for
mental exertiOn. There are, no doubt,
many men who will say that they
have smoked tobacco for years, and
yet have not experienced any of the
said troubles.
DR.. William Pepper, Provost of the
| University of Pennsylvania, has made
the broad assertion that "nO great
smoker has ever continued in active
life of mental labor beyond the age of
| forty or forty five years, BECAUSE" he
said, E'though his health may remain
good, he seems to become INDECENT
and languid, his former energy seems
| to forsake him, and he takes things as
they come"
Cannot some of my smoking hear
ers recall to themselves, or among
their acquaintance an instance where
they have refused to take opium when
ordered by their physicians, because
they considered it's use dangerous, land
as likely to lead to the formation of
the opium habit? There is very little
difference between opium and tobacco.
Large doses of tobacco will cause vom-
iting; it destroys appetite; it causes
dryness of the throat; it quiets and
soothes the nervous system; it inter
feres with digestion, and it also inter
feres with mental activity These are
the same effects as opium has when
used.
Tobacco is a great cause of dyspep-
STA. 1t interferes with digestion, and
causes all the train of evils and suffer-
ings experienced by the dyspeptic.
By this action it causes the imperfect
elaboration of our food, so that it is
turned into blood of an inferior quail
ty, and the system receives poor nour
ishment. Nicotine is the most active
principle and the most poisonous part
of tobacco, and is, of course, a foreign
agent of the body; no part or organ
needs it, and they are all anxious to
get rid of it. 1t is removed from the
body by the agency of the kidneys,
and this is throwing extra work on
the organs, and if they are weak they
may succumb to overwork and be-
come diseased. If those who use to-
bacco frequently could see into their
hearts, they would most likely see del
icate valves and thread-like tendons;
you would wonder that they can re-
sist the great weight of blood which is
pressed back upon them, and you
would readily imagine that any irreg-
ularity of excess of action would snap
them apart. By the force and fire.
quency of the hearts action the col
these delicate valves with greater
force, and SO rapidly that before they |
have recovered from the shock of one
beating they receive the force of an
other.
The heart is one of the most tireless
organs of the body acting day and |
night, year in and year out, yet it re-
other members do. This rest it gets,
and it's waste is repaired during the
momentary intervals between it's beat
ing If the hearts action is increas
ed in repetition, the time of the peri
DDS of rest must be shortened, hence
the heart must suffer from overwork
and want of rest.
They who inhale the smoke of to-
bacco carry into their lungs a large
amount of nicotine, which, lining their
cavities, interferes with the proper
performance of their functions. If
any one inhales quantity of tobacco
smoke and blows it out on a handker
chief, there is a large amount of mic
otine deposited on the handkerchief.
DR.. Wilson says: "Any one who in
dulges in tobacco to such an extent as
to render the tongue coated and dry,
does himself an injury, and when pal
pitation of the heart or other nervous
symptoms are induced he should leave
off a1tOOathar -