Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-03-06
THE OTHER L OF TOBACCO CULTURE,

meeting, every Thursday.
THE OTHER SIDE OF TOBACCO CULTURE.
All that is ever said or can be said
for that matter in favor of tobacco is
the money that is in it. The lowest
motive that an immortal being can
have. 1t is always the source of COM
fort to us to feel that whatever we pro-
duce is of benefit to our fellowmen.
Let us see what are some of the bene-
fits the tobacco producer confers on
humanity. In the first place what is
tobacco2 1t is a poisonous weed be-
longing to the same family of plants as
the deadly night shade. Most plants
of this class contain poison. The poi
son in tobacco is called nicotine; a
pound of tobacco containing ON an
average $50 grains of this deadly poison
of which one tenth of a grain will kill
a dog in three minutes. The deathly
nausea of the stomach when tobacco
first enters it is natures way of saying
Let it alone; it is a poison" But if
one does not let it alone, what then?
This fight with nature goes OF for three
or four weeks, enduring all the discom.
forts of nausea, vomiting and headache,
and after all let us see what he gets for
his pains. In the first place its local
affinity is for the nerves of the heart.
Its effect upon them is to cause palpi-
tation, weaken the heart and render it
unable to send a full supply of pure
blood through the system. 1t thius the
blood and poisons it, so that leeches APP
piled to the body of a smoker drop
dead from sucking his blood. DR..
Richardson says, Tobacco diseases the
blood, the mucous membrance Of the
mouth, the heart, the organs of sense,
the eye, the ear and the brains" 1t
often bring on what is known as TO-
bacco blindness. 1t harms the delicate
nerves of sight, smell, taste and hear
ing and tends toward paralysis. .
The dreadful disease of cancer in the
mouth or throat, often results directly
from the use of tobacco. 1t does no
good to any part of the body, but car
ries poison and harm wherever it goes.
The effects of tobacco on the soul are
no better than on the body. 1t deadens
conscience and makes some people
cross and irritable, and others gloomy
and low spirited. 1t makes a man dis
courteous. They will puff smoke into
%anyone's face and never seem to care
how offensive it is, and spit tobacco
juice wherever they happen to be.
Physicians say very many children are
so poisoned by their fathers smoking
that they die or grow puny and sickly.
Statistics from insane asylums show
that very many cases of insanity
result directly from the use of tobacco
and many more are indirectly caused
by it. 1t is a nerve poison and Injuries
the brain, through which the mind
acts. A disordered brain makes a man
crazy. The children of tobacco users
are much more liable to nervous dis
eases, and where parents and grand
parents both use it the children are al
most sure to be nervous and weakly.
Physicians think this hereditary effect
of tobacco is one reason there are 80
many cases of nervous diseases now.
The tobacco users children are apt to
form the habit and once formedi it stunts
and dwarfs the growth of body and
mind. A French physician examined
thirty eight boys who smoked; nineteen
showed marked symptoms of nicotine
poisoning and a strong desire for liquor
seven had heart disease, eight suffered
from deteriorated blood twelve had
frequent nose bleed and four had ulcer
alton of the lining membrane of the
mouth. Tobaccoleads to drinking. An
English physician says as the result Of
fifty years experience that smoking il
the main cause of drunkenness.
DR.. Mussey, of Miami Medical Col
lege, says it tends to produce a huski
ness of the mouth which calls for SOM
liquid. Water is too insipid, as the
nerves of the mouth.are in a half paral
lied state from the effect of tobacco
smoke, hence something stronger is re
sorted to-, and hence the kindred hab
its of smoking and drinking. ItcauseI
fires and great destruction of property
it Injuries the health, mind and moral'
of its users, it hurts the little children
of parents under the habit, IL rob
homes and schools and other good OBJ
iects, it exhausts the land on which i
is raised as no other crop does. Wha
manifestly great and magnanimouI
things the producer of tobacco does TO,
the human race.
Nervous People
and those who are all tired out an(