The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-08
------------7----- % 7- SHOULD WE SMOKE?
pr. Nalpasse of Paris Asserts That 1t
 Is Beneficial to Most People.

From the Philadelphia North American. T thoroughly agree with Dr. Nalpasse," said a well known American physician re- gently. T think good cigar after a meal is of undoubted help. Of course growing children should not smoke; their growth will be stunted and their mental development hindered by the habit. But few grown persons experience any harm from tobacco-that is, if they do not be- come slaves to the habit.
 T smoke quite a number of cigars every day. But to maintain control of will over my desire, once a week I stop smoking every night at o'clock and fast from the weed until o'clock the following evening.
 Thus l show that am master of my appetite, and as long as a man has men tai control he cannot be harmed.
 sThe same thing is true of wine or cer- tain kinds of food. Partake judiciously and you will feel grateful satisfaction 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-
 Dr. Nalpasse made a scientific study of
 
 tobacco and it's effects. What is most re- markable, perhaps, is that he found that the smoking of cigar in many cases cured otherwise incurable cases of dys- pepsia,
 Most persons, according to the Parisian savant, experience bad results because they do not know how to smoke.
 Suppose you were smoking delicious Havana; that you should lay 1t aside a minute and the fire should become extin- guished. You will no doubt pick 1t up and relight it, ignorant of the fact that as soon as you took puff all the harmful nicotine in the stump would enter your lungs.
 If a 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-quarters smok- ed. A man should smoke only three or four cigars a day A pipe which has be- come discolored, he declared. is filled with nicotine and unfit to be put into the mouth. A person should not smoke on an empty stomach.
 Nicotine, according to the French phy- slcian, does not volatilize until it attains 25O 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. | To those who can use tobacco and use it moderately says Dr. Nalpasse, 1t is pleasant and harmless; but it should not be used he says, by persons suffering from a lung disease, or who have heart trouble. To persons afflicted with nervous disorder 1t might be injurious.
 'Tn some cases" writes the physician, tobacco aids digestion by exciting the salivary secretion and producing greater activity on the part of the gastric or gans.'
 He cites the case of a woman who suf- fered from hysteria and extreme nausea. She failed to keep any food in her stom- ach Dr. Dujardine Baumetz advised her to smoke a cigar after each meal; to her delight she found that the nausea passed away. When she failed to smoke, the malady returned and she suffered extreme discomfort.
 In cases of partial drowning and as- phyxiation according to Charleroi, smok- l ing has had a reviying effect. | pr. Nalpasse advises no one to smoke | in a sleeping room. Nor would he ad- wise those who have not formed the habit 1 to take it up upon the strength of his ar- | ticle.