Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1907-05-10
Should We Smoke.

passe," sad well-known American
4 physician recently. 81 think good
cigar after meal is ofundoubted help.
! OF course growing children should not
smoke: their growth will be stunted
and their mental development hinder
ed blythe habit. But few grown persons
experience any harm from tobacco
that is, if they do not become slaves to
tne habit.
81 smoke quite number of cigars
every day. But to maintain control o:
will over my desire, once a week /
stop smoking every night at 6 o'clock
and fast from the weed until o'clock
the following evening.
"Thus / show that / am master of
my appetite, and as long as a man
has mental control he cannot be harm
ed
"The same thing is true of wine, or
certain kinds offood. Fartake judicious-
| ly and you will feel grateful salts
faction and benefit from appeasing
your desire; but give way entirely and
eat and drink whatever you want, and
all you want, and you certainly will
suffer-
DIR. Nalpasse made a scientific study
of tobacco and its effects. What is
most remarkable, perhaps, is that he
found that the smoking of a cigar in
many cases cured otherwise incurable
cases of dyspepsia.
Most persons, according to the Pari-
sian savant, experience the bad re-
suits because they do not know how
| to smoke.
Suppose you were smoking a de-
licious Havana; that you should lay it
] aside minute and the fire should be-
come extinguished. You will no doubt
pick it up and relight it, ignorant of
the fact that as soon as you took a puff
all the harmful nicotine in the stump
would enter your lungs.
If cigar is particularly good, you
would possibly smoke it down to the
wet butt, and you'd chew the butt in
the bargain. How often have you seen
men do that.
DR.. Nalpasse said a cigar should be
thrown away when three-quaaters
smoked. A man should smoke only
three or four cigars day A pipe which
has become discolored he declared, is
| filed with nicotine and unfit to be put
into the mouth. A person should not
smoke on an empty stomach.
Nicotine according to the Frenc h
physician, does not votalize until it at
tains $50 degrees, SO, as the cigar
burns down to the end the poison is
likely to be drawn into the lungs. In
this respect he says, the japanese take
all precautions.
10 those who can use tobacco and
use it moderately, says DR.. Ma lpasse,
lt.is pleasant and harmless; but it
should not be used, he says by persons
sufieiing from lung disease, or who
have heart trouble. To persons afflicted
with nervous disorder it might be in
furious.
I'm some cases." writes the physi-
clan, tobacco aids digestion by excit-
ing the salivary secretion and sproduc.
ing greater activity on the part of the
gastric organs"
He cites the cause of woman who
suffered from hystcria and extreme
nausea. She failed to keep any food
in her stomach. DR.. Dujardine Bau-
metz advised her to smoke cigar after
each meal; to her delight she found
that the nausea passed away. When
she failed TO smoke, the maIady re-
turned and she suffered extreme dis.
comfort.
In cases of partial drew ming and as
by pxiation, according to Charleori
smoking has had a regiving effect.
DR.. Nalpasse advises no one to smoke
in sleeping room. Nor would he adj
wise those who have not formed the
habit to take it upon the strength of
! his rfiaIa