The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-07-23

amber that got down my throat
was by way of accident, which of.
ten occurs with tobacco chewers.
Sometimes it is drawn back into
the trachea, then tunult and com
motion take place.
| The habit of swallowing the to.
bacco and amber is slowly &C.
quired, on the same system or pro.
cedure as the fable of Milo and his
bull calf. Milo commenced lifting
the calf when quite small, as often
as three times day, and kept II
up until he could lift and carry
him when he was quite a grown
bull, snd | will venture to say
that Milo was not a user of tobac
co. Those individuals that can
and do inhale the smoke deeply
into the lungs, and retain it almost
indefinitely, with closed mouth,
and exhale it through the air pas
sages of the nose, are already en-
trapped, and with all other fiends,
such as opium, alcohol, cocaine,
and all other victims of habit are
to be pitied, as but few ever get
their freedom We find such sub.
jects with depraved nerve centers,
going about like walking skele
tons, with cads verous appearance,
and look as though they have
about as much blood in their
bodies as we would fine in cured !,
smoked and dried herring, or what
is generally known as blind rob-
in. The tobacco fiends are so sat
urated with this nicotine poison,
that on examination of the heart .
action We find cardiac murmurs,
either valvnlar, mitral, cystalic, or
aortic, and almost all that are six
ty- five years old have arterioscler-
osis. We find this to be the case
with our old war vertrans, who
are old tobacco veterans as we'll,
aud is 1T any wonder, as it is posi-
lively known that the active prin
ciple (nlcotine), which it contains
in large quantity, is next to prus-
sic acid, which is the most rapidly
fatal poison known,
Like alcohol, tobacco is prep ,red
in many ways as an inducement to
decoy young men and boys, and
older men as well. No one knows
80 we'll of the preparations as the
who has been initiated,
and taken most of the degrees as
tobacco user. will name a few
of the preparations for chewing,
commencing with the old six twist,
as l knew of sixty years ago,
which sold without weighing, six
twists for pound, which was
known among tobacco users as dog
leg, horse leg, and other low, of.
fensive, unrefued names, all in
keeping with the truck. Next
came Cavendish, the Navy, Black
Strap, Shoe String, Pigtail, Honey
Dew, Golden Thread, and doubt
less hundred other kinds, but l
must not forget one other kind, of
much Importance, known as Nat
ural Leaf, or Hen Roost, as 1 re-
member we'll of seeing much of it
packed or hanging in old sheds,
stables or barns, where chickens
roasted over it. And for smoking
and chewing is the Polar Bear,
Bull Durham, and hundreds of
other kinds, some of it gold tipped
and gilt.edged. When it comes to
cigars and cigarettes, there are
thousands of different brands,
some of them decorated with all
the national colors, red, white and
blue, and advertised in a pictur-
esque manner with all our states
men, or people of any great motor
iety, as showing favoritism to a
certain brand of chewing and
smoking tobacco. This is all done
for the purpose to decoy, and get
the young and old into the trap,
in the interest Of the vendor.
Quite recently the member of
our General Assembly of the State
of Indiana legislated against the
manufacture and sale of cigarettes
alone, in tins State, upon the
grounds that the wrappers were
contaminated with arsenic, and
the filters with certain per cent
OF opium, or some narcotic oi son.