The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-07-23
fects of tobacco, which can be sus-
tanned by the highest authority in

tne WOrlu, ITtmDilnH, piuuihess,
sickness, vomiting, gastraIgia,
dyspel sia, vitiated taste, loose
bowels, diseased liver, congestion
of the brain, pain in the head, APP
oplexy, paralysis, loss of memory,
amaurosis, deafness, nervousness,
i'm potence, cowardice, temporary
blindness, mania, paleness and
sallowness of complexion, en-.
feebled voluntary muscles, sleer-
lessness, palpitation of heart with
feeling of suffocation, clouded
mental faculties, irritable temper,
instability of purpose, fits OF de-
spondency, emaciatiOn, harshness
of voice and general anemia-and
then some. To the above list may
be added Incidence, slovenliness,
and inexcusable purposeles sness.
Of course it would be waste of
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time and labor to refer to proof OF
all the above charges against the
user of tobacco, but doubt not
that there are those present, old
sinners such as / have been my
self, whose personal experience or
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count 10 the above indictment.
Leaving the question of what
the essential elements of life forces
| are, it is safe to assume they are
capable of sustaining only a given
amount of resistance until they
yield to decay and death. The
effect of tobacco on the young
illustrates the foregoing state
ments. If any of you know d
dwarfed old man only eighteen
years of age, who is no larger than
a ten.year-old boy, though he
bears tie appearance of one three
score and ten, and who walks your
streets IN indolent, purposeless and
Improbable life, that boy uses to-
bacco, or quite likely his father
was drunkard, and chewed and
both when sober, and that boy is
IN training for the state prison,
but for want of enterprise may
never attain to higher considera-
tion of the state than home in
the insane asylum.
Most of the old tobacco sinners
doubtless know from experience
that memory is impaired by the.
use of the drug. If we propose to
perform any solid mental labor, We
do not call in the aid of tobacco,
which is only calculated to assist
the fanciful dreams. Milton, the
poet and author of 'Psradise ost,
saturated his loftiest conceptions
with tobacco smoke, but Sir Isaac
Newton, who brought order out of
confusion of the astronomy of his
day, could not afford to build to
himself new necessity in the
shape of tobacco. The island of
Cuba, which has produced, and
Spain, which consumes more to-
bacco than any other countries in
proportion to their population,
have been sorrowful examples of
mental and physical Incidence,
They were for years engaged in
war with each ether, which only
proves the degeneracy of a race
once distinguished for energy and
enterprise, the home of Queen Isa-
bella and Christopher Columbus.
/ can conceive of no ciicum.
stances in which we wonld advise
the use of tobacco, by persons in
health, except those whose sole oc
cupation is to kill time. The old
man bereft of friends, who is deaf
and blind, and an inmate of some
one of our county asylums, might
use tobacco, if it were not for the
engendering of pollution, to the
disgust Of other inmates more re-
fined, who of necessity occupy
such places of charity, or one who
with all his faculties unlmpaired,
is condemned to prison life, or is
hopelessly banished or cast away
on some desolate island. These,
and such as these only, perhaps,
might possibly indulge in the use
of tobacco, for it's 0bliterating ef-
feet, but with degree of protest,
as this paragraph indicates. We
might as we'll adopt the Mexican
habit of using arsenious acid, an
til We could take a drachm at
time with impunity, and then in
sist that it is essential to our well.