Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-03-20
TOBACCO USERS.
Some of the Dangers of Excess
sive Smoking.
CHARMING PLEASURE IN MANHOOD.
But Neither Striplings Nor Growing
Youths Should Venture to Either
Smoke or Chew.

The devotees of tobacco may be
divided into three classes: LIST, those
strong and healthy people who can use
it, and, within certain limits, abuse it,
too, without injury, End, those who
can use it in moderation with little
or no discernible injury, but suffer if
they abuse it; and 3rd, those to whom
tobacco is toxical, who must suffer if
they attempt to use it in any way at all.
We all know that nicotine and the
dark brown empyreumatic oil pro-
duced in burning are tobacco's two
most harmful ingredients, and that to
this oil is due the stale smell Of the
old pipe and of the stale stump.
Nicotine is present in about two per
cent. in the mildest Havana tobacco,
and ranges up to about seven per cent.
in the strongest Virginia.
Whether the pipe, cigar, or cigarette
instils most oil and nicotine. and
which is safest to smoke, are questions
of Importance. DR.. Cathell says that
short pipes and thick, dumpy cigars are
most apt to induce cancer. etc.. and no
habitual smoker should smoke his
cigar down to the very end, but should
throw the last third away, as analysis
has shown that the arrested nicotine,
nicotianin, and empyreumatic oil are
there, all thickly accumulated. Using
pipes with long stems, and smoking all
cigars and cigarettes through holders,
HI ho n rr,nph of tho
poison and heat, and robs smoking of
half its harmful powers; and the later
in the day one smokes the less it in
jures, and the earlier in the morning
the more it inhibits horsepower and
nutritive activity, and further, no
one should shut himself up in a small
room at any time to smoke and create
around himself a cloud of nicotine, for
an increased amount Of poison is
then condensed on the delicate mucous
membrane of the whole respiratory
tract, and is thence taken into the en-
tire system.
Cigarette smoking makes delicate
person lips and face lose their natural
healthy hue quicker than any other
mode of using tobacco.
No one with decayed or broken teeth,
or dental plates that rub the gums or
cut the tongue or mouth, should Ell Their
smoke or chew, for either of these may
be the fatal starting point
Tobacco certainly acts as depressant
to feeble people and lowers their
stamina. and such persons with can
cerous diathesis or scrofulous consti
tuition should not use it in any form
for in all such subjects the delicate,
pulpy tissue of the mouth, throat. and
nose is very prone to infammatory
action, and also to liberation, from
smoking or chewing. and in large
proportion of cases these degenerate
into, or light up, the affection their
predisposition or constitution indicates;
and no one who is aware that he has
inherited a weak or diseased constitu-
ton, or defective vitality, should risk
reducing his stamina further by the use
of this agent.
Neither can persons suffering with
any form of neurasthenia smoke with
out injury, and yet these are the very
persons who most frequently are the
greatest smokers; some smoking in
Vulnerable cigarettes, or, lighting one
cigar after another, they smoke six,
eight, or dozen day.
Smoking also creates in some persons
a persistent hacking cough, due to ten
acious mucous that accumulates in the
pharynx and larynx. dependent on
morbid, infiltrated condition of the It's
sues of the palate and throat, which
often degenerates into condition that
closely resembles clergyman's sore
throat. or into diseased throat and
post-nasal catarrh com bined.
Whoever finds that tobacco is injur-
ing him should stop its use; but unfor
tunately many of those it is affecting
never realize that it is doing them any
harm, attributing all their ailments
to other causes.
When tobacco induces sense of
tumefaction, heat, and prickipg in the
throat it should be let alone, and those
whom it occasionally makes sick. and
persons with poor appetite, and those
recovering from wasting sickness, are
among the ones it Injuries most.
The habit of swallowing tobacco
smoke and then expelling it through
the nose, and also of coughing it into
the lungs, are both very injurious, as
they irritate and dry the mucous men,
brane of the pharynx, larynx. and
trachea, and subject them to the var
ious tobacco affections. Blowing it
through the nose is also harmful, as it
is a fruitful cause of the hypetrophic
of its mucous membrane so
often discovered in smokers, and the
sense of smell is also greatly impaired
by smoke blowing.
There is a strong suspicion that the
high degree of injury that follows
cigarette smoking is not due solely to
the tobacco they contain, but is also
due in part to its union with the So
called rice-paper wrappers in combus-
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