The morning call., 1894-01-18
PROFESSOR PRICES ANALYSIS THE CIGARETTE.

frOthy mucus coming from the mouth,
and subsequent death in three and a half
minutes. Chemical analysis showed the
presence of the poison in the stomach,
blood and the soft tissues of the mouth
and throat.
THE usual effects of a poisonous dose
of tobacco when taken into the stomach
are confusion in the head. paleness of the
countenance, vertigo, nausea, severe
retching and vomiting, heat in the stom-
ach, great anxiety, sense of sinking at
the pit OF the stomach, with extreme pros
tration, trembling Of the limbs and often
feeble and almost imperceptible. the res
piraton difficult, the skin cold and
clammy, the pupils dilated and con-
tracted and the vision more or less i'm
paired, and death is ushered in by convul-
slons and paralysis.
when tobacco Is smoked large por-
tion of the nicotine it contains is con-
yerted into pyridIne and other pyrOigen-
Gus compounds, but careful investigations s
have proven that fully One-seyenth of the
nicotine present In the tobacco passes un-
changed into the smoke.
'The smoke also contains carbonic acid
and carbonic oxide, this latter a most
poisonous gas. An atmosphere containing
only per cent of this gas kills instantly,
while it has been found that an atmos-
phere containing only one per cent of this
gas has killed dog In a minute and halt
When this gas is inhaled in small GUAM
titles and largely diluted with air it pro-
duces giddiness. sickness ana debility.
Sulphuretted hydrogen and hydrocyanic
(prussic) acid have also been found In TO bac-
co smoke. Pyridine. however, IS the chief
base formed from tobacco smoked in
cigarettes. When inhaled, pyridine acts
as a respiratory sedative, and on the lower
animals Vt0!ant n0ignn It ia tn no
presence OF the pyridine bases that the in
ternal action of tobacco smoke is at
tributed. In cigar-smoking the combus-
tion 10 much more complete than in the
case Of the cigarette. and il is therefore
less poisonous. In the pipe the combus-
tion Is less complete than in the cigar, but
much more so than in the cigarette.
"ln the smoking of cigarette the whole
of the evolved nicotine, pyrldine and the
deadly carbonic oxide and prussic acid are
inhaled ard pass through the lungs and
into the blood.
"The only effect of smoking cigarettes.
on children, can be to undermine their
constitution, and to ultimately ruin them
physically and morally. and unless they
can be RESCUED in time they cannot but
end their days with shattered health, if
not in an insane asylum"
The president Of the Berkeley Univer-
sity very kindly accorded his views on
cigarette smoking. As one of >the most
prominent educators of the coast his ex-
perience on the subject cannot but have
great weight. He saws:
BERKELEY. Jan. 16 1894
join heartily IN the crusade against cigar
ette-smoking. l have long regarded it as a
nuisance and an evil; but the recently pub-
llshed testimony OF medical men shows the evil
10 be alarming, both IN its extent aud in IT'S
mischief. All available means should be used
10 abolish it. MARIN KELLOGG.
With the pledges returned, filed with
signatures, from the public schools came
several letters from principals, which are
specially Interesting and contain point
ers" for other Ruders of youth. Among
them are the following:
Editor Morning Call: Every bow In the Mi.
sion Grammar School signed the pledge. I feel
confident that not boy In this school smokea
now. Win two exceptions not one has smos ed
Tor three months, and The TWO exceptions not
since the new year. All have promised to let
me know at once II they fail to keep the pie edge.
Very sincerely yours.
MRS. N. r. CRAVEN, Principal.
Editor Call: With this send 172 signatures.
all willingly given, as 1 charged none to sign
unless they meant 10 keep the pledge
One large boy In the fourth grade, who. I
learn. has been a cigarette smok er, anxiously
asked IL the pledge included cigars, Since he
Is very deficient in his schOm work 1t proved a
good object lesson 10 The class. However, he
signed the pledge without further solicitation
as wished all to act freely.
On account OF The weather quite a number of
our boys are absent, but OF those present onlv
one refuses TO sign. He is a boy of IL years
very small and stupid for bis age, both condi-
tons doubtless the result OF smoking cigar
cites. have notified his parents of the habit,
which l would not have known but for THE
CALLS anticlgarette pledge. For the good Of
our children am. yours sincerely,
AURELIA GRIFFITH,
Principal Golden Gate School,
Editor Morning CALL herewith inclose
the lists from the classes in the Crocker Gram
mar School who have signed the CALLS Boys
AntiCigarette League.
IL Is a source OF great qualification 10 me
that you have inaugurated q crusade against
this most seductive and dangerous habit which
mas done and Is now doing so much TO ruin the
Doys or our state and country.
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