New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-09
HOW MUCH Is ENOUGH.
This Line of Inquiry applied to the
Use of Tobacco.

A history OF the use OF tobacco for smoking pur-
poses from the days when the spaniards first
observed the Indians using the plant the present.
Is given by DR.. Valentin Nalpasse of the Paris
Faculty Of Medicine, and physician to the Persian
embassy, in highly interesting article which ap-
pears in the Journal de St Petersburg"
Dr NaIpasse traces the development of the use OF
tobacco as medical agent. and then comes natu-
rally 10 the question whether smoking is q
practice injurious health He refers to the great
popularity of Jean Moot, who introduced tobacco
into Continental Europe and after whom we have
the word nicotine. Since Nicots day, says DIR. Nal
pasSe. the of tobacco has been more than a
habit or pastime. 1t is passion. a mania II not
second nature.
There are tobaccos and tobaccos. ways OF snok-
Ing and ways of smoking. The Oriental exclams:
You people of Europe do not know how to smoker
Perhaps he is right.
The Oriental knows all about tobacco. His supply
IS prodigious. 1t comprises every variety OF fine
tobacco. from the finest leaves the most varied
mixtures of the different qualities. To Of the
mixtures perfumes added. For the who
smokes the narghileh. sweet perfumes are
mixed in greater or less proportion. with the sharp.
strong tombekou That complicated vehicle. the
narghieh very hygienc. In it tobacco is grllled
in little metallic furnace. The smoke passes
through a tube and through vaseful OF pure
water. water. and through a second pipe
to the lips of the smoker.
Now and then the Oriental interrupts his smoke
to take few sips Of coffee from tiny glass, and
by that means he neutrazes the slow ntoxicaton
induced by the prolonged Of tombekou.
Tobacco, from the time of its introduction into
Europe, met bitter opposition. Its enemies had al
ways been as numerous as its friends, and a close
study Of It's properties shows that like all eX-
citants 1t has faults. which. if 1t is abused are
dangerous to the physical organism. Says DR.. Nal
passe .
as II should be treated and taken in a reasonable
smoke those who have not formed the ha6it Of
smoking but It must be admitted that tobacco may
be used without bad effects. 1t has bad effect
when used moderately by people who are in a CON
people who have heart trouble or lung trouble. 1t
must not be used by people who have any disease
used by any one who would be unpeasantly az
Iected or who would S be disturbed by hearty
tobacco might be dangerous. and ii Is not neces-
| baGGo must not be used in any form by growing
Judged therapeuticaly, tobacco has an incon-
testabe action on the intestinal canal. Continues
Many people are forced to smoke at least one
cigarette as aperient before the morning meal;
Elective than the tga4 In
erection and so determining greater activity OF the
gastric secretiors When pleading the cause OF to-
suffered from hysterta. she was racked by nausea
and al treatments had failed to cheek her par
smoke one cigar after each meal she ala So and
ceased neT V0i!lunS Mheh se negeeted 20 sIn0 t
cigarette been useful for the prevention or
And according to the testimony OF the Jesuit priest
Chartered. in cases Of asphyxiation and drowning
Many doctors have spoken against tobacco. and
| against its use, These societies exaggerated the
evils Of tobacco, and their complaint, made in the
bid its In any form Exaggeratons are not sue
cessfuI and perhaps, for that reason many of the
AfteT very serious study OF the properties and
! Il conclude that there are no pernicious effects
W4 t , UnISoS ~ GsT g, re
use OF IL smoked as It should he smoked. tobacco
| Ana the man who smokes as he oucht-and in til,
| only way that tobacco was made to be smoked
! bitual smokers should avoid smoking on an empt,
stomach unless they, take this smoke, as an ape
| room Three cigars 81 day, four at most or thei
ne habi{aai smoker, The 'coiored' pipe. howeye
agG2 Tc0i may have awe been 2oTsd o Is IL pr
smoked. a colored pipe is At for nothing but e
pipe after Inc first few puffs The cigar should b,
! thrown aside When but three-quarters smoked-ju5
! kaoid contained in tobacco leaves, does not VIOLA
tllze until II attains go degrees and It is drawn
! with the smoke toward the mouth when the fire
! is near the mouth end Of the cigar or cigarette
mouth. The habit Of smoking the wet stump of &
foolish indecate not to saw rreedy Here We have
an act that hetrays absolute Ignorance Of the com
.' tb b ans ~ ra ,s 81 tbe Ise I'
& IA ha e - naGot b 'i n M - I'm
smokers know that the first pufTs of tobacco smoke
most agreeable while the last OF the smoke Is
dstaseful and aCrid. If Il does not irritate the
| throat II the smoker TO cough"
The Japanese-and probably they alone in this
have seized the meaning Of these last Irritating
| puffs Of smoke, and in smoking In every other
OF life. they have taken hygieniC precautions
Il had occasion to study their method on board q
/ Japanese warship TO which l invited fifteen
years ago. Their tobacco is stripped IN threads like
finely stripped stuffed into an exceeding
~ small pipe. and Of each pipe the Japanese draws
| two whfrs-Only two, no more. The sight aston
shed me. and. noticing my establishment, the sur
geOn explained to me that they smoked In that way
! 10 avoid inhaling nicotine. The pipes had TO he
the pipes be'pg held at burning fuselike wlcks
pended for that purpose at the of the ship
! ] considered the whole arrangement hygienic''
AS tobacco is noNous in proportion to the amount
! OF nicotine held by IT, man ought 10 think sert
Ousy. before he makes his selection OF the origin
| OF his tobacco.
Analyses have proved that the Oriental to-
| baccos contain only minimum quantity OF nico-
| tine. Western tobacco contains much more. The
| tobacco of Hungary contains per OF nicO-
tine. and that Of Brazil. Maryland and Virginia
contains quantities varying from 229 to SIS per
est proportion OF nicoine-uearly per cent NiCo-
tine is a redoUbtable poison The best way avoid
inhaling il IS to smoke pipe through Al long stem
and with a bOwl-llke the chiboukhS of the Turks
That pipe, now out of date. excellent one
1t was composed of several successive tubes fur
rested the nicotine before II reached the smokers
mouth. But Of al! the pipes, none equal the
graceful and delightful narghileh the ghalan OF
the Persians. Those the pipes used necessarily
by TIE people of the East, and by their the
noxlous action of tobacco is almost wholly annihi-
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