The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-11-19
THE FACE.
Smoking Leaves Its Imprint on the
COuntenance.

lOkIl leaves us imprint on the
Countenance.
The man who habitually uses tobac-
co must have the tobacco face. It is
recognized by science nat every habit
must have it's expression in the physi-
ognomy. Tobacco impresses itself more
strongly than any substance thai is
taken into the system except alcohol.
A Chicago scientist has studied and
analysed the tobacco face. He divides
it into four principal classes: % The
Pfpe face. Cj The cigar face. go The
chewing face. 4) The cigarette face.
The most common form of this pecu-
liarity is the pipe face. The constant
use Of the pipe as most smokers use
that article has it's effect upon the face
because it is habitually carried in the
same position. Every lover of the pipe,
although he may not be aware of the
fact, has a %favOrite way of holding his
pipe between his teeth and lips. 1t ma
be in either corner of the mouth, the
center or some point between these, but
wherever it is he will find he holds his
pipe in that one position more than any
other If the smoker who does this will
carefully examine his own lips he will
find that they retain the form of the
stem, even When the pipe is not in use.
The pressure of the lips to hold the
pipe III pOSlIloI lIllChSIlS dIOullu lle
stem and the muscles. become more rig
id here than in other parts of the lips.
Thus the lips at a certain point become
stronger and the pipe is VncOnSciously
held in the same habitual position.
After long continuation of the habit
small circular wrinkles form parallel
to the curvature Of the lips around the
stem. These are crossed by finer lines
caused by the pressure of the lips to
retain the stem in position. In the case
of old men. who have smoked the pipe
for years. the effect upon the lips is
very marked, not only altering the form
of the lips. but one entire side of the
face, causing wrinkles that are the re-
suit of age to deepen and, instead of
following the natural law of facial
wrinkles, to change their course so as
to radiate from the part of the mouth
where the pipe is habitually carried.
Moreover, n or both lips protrude, just
children, formed the habi of sucking
the thumb. the lips still retaining the
unnatural form years after the habit
has been abandoned.
Cigar smoking, while not affecting the
teeth as does the pipe. nevertheless has
its own peculiar results. The biting off
of the sharp end of a cigar, preparatory
to lighting. Injuries the front teeth in
the same manner as biting off thread.
The upper and lower teeth are brought
sharply together, often chipping off lit
tie flakes of enamel.
The effect upon the lips and face pro-
duced by cigar smoking is similar to
that caused by the pipe. While the
cigar is of softer material, it is larger
and thicker, and as it is usually held in
the same position in the mouth, the
same unnatural curvature of the lips
with the accompanying fine lines and
wrinkles are the result.
AHo r-s+I %1s.1r IT,
cigar in the center of the lips, while the
smoker with thin lips puffs the fragralt
weed by holding his cigar in the corner
of his mouth. This fact accounts for
the different forms of facial alteration.
The cigarette face is very common,
n is familiar to most people. The Q
slant inhalation of smoke into the lungs
and bronchial tubes produces a nervous
effect upon, the face which resembles
a mixed expression Of languor and pain.
To a certain extent this v effect
upon the face is common to all smokers,
whether of h pipe, cigar or cigarette.
The sensitive points are the lungs, nos
n%ostrils and sensitive %olfactory nerves.
the upper lip is raised and compressed,
to the nose a constant expression
OF being near a pungent or penetrating
OdOr. This expression is also very SIM
liar to that of the face in sneering.
The eyes are affected by smoke, both
by direct contact and through the Gus
tachian tubes from the nose and mouth.
1t is interesting to conjecture the ul-
innate development of the tobacco face
in future generations. The amount of
tobacco consumed at the present time
IS larger than ever before, and is annu-
ally increasing. The science of h%eredity
has long recognized the fact thai the
tobacco habit is transmitted from faith
er to son, and many believe there is no
doubt that the ~physiognomy of future
generations will bear from birth the de-