The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-10
What Specialists say.

In talk with the leading specialists OF
New York a number Of peculiar things
with regard to cigarette smoking was dis
covered. The result of my conferences
leads me to believe that cigarette smoking
ever, causes death, but is, nevertheless. the
most pernicious habit that a young man
under twenty-one can contract.
DR.. Charles L. Dana, perhaps the most
celebrated nerve specialist in the United
States, gave the writer twenty minutes Of
his valuable time the other day, and this is
what he had to say
II will not say that the action of the
Massachusetts legislature in prohibiting
the sale of cigarettes to minors is going to
be productive Of real good. 1t is matter
for men in other professions to decide
whether such law can or cannot be en-
forced. But being smoker myself l have
| certain sympathy for all men who like a
good cigar at proper times. And yet l
think, in the light of researches which
have made in professional way, that the
use of tobacco in any shape by persons un-
der the age of twenty
Is PERNIcioUs AND POSITIVELY HARMFUL.
[ believe that this fact which is so patent
| to me and to all men in the medical profess
| n.
! AS to cigarettes, believe it is the worst
form in which young man under twenty
can become addicted to the tobacco habit.
| My main reason for this is that it enables
a child to learn to smoke early. Cigarette
smoking, you know is an insidious habit.
1t comes easily to the young and becomes a
controlling habit before young people are
aware of it.
'Inhaling ia the most pernicious feature
. N a onf. mo of bo
quired, it takes on the shape of mania,
and becomes as difficult to control as the
opium or morphine habit.
My observations demonstrated to me
that the young man who inhales cigarette
smoke carries the habit with him when he
begins to smoke cigars, and l have had in
stances where even pipe smoke was in =
haled In fact, the inhalers in many cases
cannot smoke without resorting to this
most pernicious practice.
There are some things about cigarette
smoking that the popular mind needs to be
instructed upon. One of these is that il
doesn't particularly hurt the lungs OF
throat, and that it does not produce con
sumption. Of course, it produces some
irritation of these parts, but one of its
principal effects is on the stomach, where
it produces a dyspeptic condition. Us
worst effect is, of course, on the nervous
system and on the heart. 1t tends to i'm
pair the stability of the nerves, produces
palpitation and general lowering of thu
vital tone. In later years 1T tends to pro
duce condition of severe nervous prostra
lions; nervous shocEs are frequent anC
easily brought about; yet / must say that
have had no case, and L know of no cas-,
where
CIGARETTE SMOKING PRODUCED DEATH.
II find also that it is much less Harmful
to working people, to such as labor out
doors, than TO those who are confined a
; work indoors. Its worst effect is on chill
) dren of the better class. These, as rule
, are brought up for indoor work
; II would define the conditions resultin
from excessive cigarette smoking and in
haling as follows: Nervous prostration
extreme apprehensiveness, loss of appetite
/ poor circulation. thin blood, condition O
, paralysis of the nerves that controls tn
A blood vessels, heart palpitation which ca
! be felt throughout the body, clamm
} hands.
II will not say that the inhalation of tn
| paper smoke has any appreciable effec,
3 Many men use holder, AID these find tina
} few cigarettes have absolutely no effec
upon them. 1t is only with young peopl
J that the efforts to stop cigarette smokin
/ should be carried on with vigor'
: DIR. n. Allan Star, another famous neul