The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-04-07
Tobacco vs.. Humanity.

EDITOR PIONEER:
Dear Sir: If you will allow space in
your paper, I would like to call the atten-
ton Of parents and teachers to the %injuri-
Gus effects of the use of tobacco on the
young. W. have a law in our state that
prohibits the sale of tobacco in any form
to persons under sixteen years of age.
There is reason to believe that this law
like some others-is being violated and
boys are learning to use that which will
i~njure them mentally, physically and NOR
ally. We have also a scientific temper
ance law that provides that physiology
and hygiene be taught with special refer
ence to the injurious effects of alcohol.
tobacco and all narcotics on the human
system. I wish I could impress every
teacher with the Importance of faithfully
teaching this subject. Is it not worth
more to a CHILD to know how to keep a
sound mind in a sound body than any
other knowledge that can be given in the
schoolroom? Parents can assist teachers
very much in this by being interested in
it and by enquiring into what their child
rem learn outside of their homes and the
schoolroom. Tobacco has the most at
traction for boys, for they seeing their
elders and superiors using it,. are apt to
think it is a manly thing to do and will
c~ongregate in corners and o~ut-of-the-way
places and practice and perhaps have the
habit fixed upon them before parents and
teachers are aware. And what can be
said of the habit?
to boys: IF it we're not that a great many
men of character and high social position
have the tobacco habit, it would be con-
sidered by all decent people as a vile, dis
gushing, loathsome habit, fit only for ig-
norant savages through whom it made its
way to the civilized world"
Here are some testimonies from emin.
ent educators and physicians:
Tobacco used in any form destroys the
ability to apply ones self to study and
prevents his learning or remembering his
lessons. The mental faculties of a boy
under the influence of the narcotic seem
to be in a stupor. l have not met a pu-
pill addicted to the habit who will 60
through a single days work and.have good
lessons. Experience has shown that the
younger the habit is acquired. the more
disastrous the results to the mentality of
the child III. H. Surley, Principal Iowa
State Normal School
Tobacco reduces the intellectual power
of a boy. 1t impairs the memory."-E. O.
Otis, M. D., in British Medical and Sur
gical Journal.
1T is high time that something were
done to put a stop to this frightful evil
which is stu nting the youth and running
the health of thousands of boys. The
prodigious increase of cigarette smo king
among boys in the last five years is an ev-
il which will tend to the deterioration of
the race if it is not checked DIR. Rob-
erts Bartholow.
I'm some instances the starting point
of a criminal career dates from the first
indulgence of the tobacco vice. producing
by slow degrees a complete moral trans
formation. DIR. Figars. F. r. C. s..
Prof. of Surgery of the Royal College of
Surgeons.
Tobacco impairs the delicacy of the
moral sense. 1t impairs the power to per-
ceive moral truth."-Dr. Graham.
Chauncey M. Depew says he was once
an ardent devoteeu of the weed, but when
he found he had to choose between tobac-
co and brain. he babe an eternal goodbye
to the tobacco. In a little tract entitled
''How a Smoker got a Home" Mr.. Luth-
er Prescott Hubbard, OF New York, tells
how he laid aside the amount of money he