The Washington herald., 1909-07-04

ana next Le becomes blind.
/ Perhaps this experiment supplies an an
sWer 20 the question. Why are men
baidz' OF course. the work OF reformers
has injured the educational prospects OF
I the Would-be tobacco users. These re-
! formers so often have spoiled al that
I they might have accomplished by putting
coHee and tea into the same category
with tobacco These fatalities from nico-
I tine show % the simplest that neither OF
| these table drinks can be compared 10
\ the Doisons OF tobacco. and the CRY OF
The reIormer becomes al once too much
wolf"
But We come 10 the certain influences OF
nicotine. Both sicheI and Critchett we'll
known English ocUlists. discovered that q
F smoker who used even 50 little as i've
elghths OF an ounce Of tobacco a dav for
any sustained period suffered a wasting
I OF the optic nerve, called amaurosIs. Tha
disease IS dulling Of the sight. vet no
examination OF the eye viii reveal the de-
I feet Whether Il IS caused BY the irrftat-
! Ing effect ot the smoke OF whether Il
operates through the nervous system. is =
question, but IN any case. other things
being equal. IL IS recognized thar the
smoker has not as good sight as has the
I inonsmoker. u the eyes suffer. 50 does
I The nose. and DR.. Amory Hare. who
7 liked a whin Of the pipe as wen as tbs
next one. has laid stress upon the srarA-
ment that every chronic smoker suffers
more than his share OF nasal ca+ayrh
This IS strengthened by the well-observed
fact that men. more than women. are az
fiicted with colds in the head" IN chronic
form
| Chronic laryngitis is one OF TIE re,oz-
nized effects OF 100 much smoking. II
may begin with the victims renarkfnx
mat re becomes hOarse without seeming
cause The acrfd fumes Of the tobacco
nave set up a slight Inflammation which
makes the surface more Susceptible 70
colo. and as the smoke keeps I'd tba
irritation and the drafts catch him he
hes chronic laryngiJs before he knows Il.
Darwin once accused people who srnok-
60 many hours day OF having little com
mon sense This observation nav be re-
garded from the point of view OF the rbv-
slcian with more than a shade OF crelu-
MY Smoking has e disposition 20 dry
inc mouth and stop the flow OF saliva
with an insufficient amount of saliva IN
the stomach the processes OF dfrasrfor
are interferred with, and the person hsv-
ing stomach fuu OF food lying in an
undigested state cannot be IN the most
reasonable and reasoning mood possible
or all these ills. tobacco heart Is one
OF the most pronounced and dangerous.
In almost any hospital one may
see victims o. the tobacco heart
scarcely able 10 SIT Up IN bed and TOO
weak 70 move. II the hospitals these pa
uents are refused tobacco and. they. soon
recover. Angina pectoris. one OF the most
dangerous and painful diseases. often IS
caused by excessive smoking. Some OF
the most prominent men IN all walks OF
life have died from Il. and IN most cases
they have smoked 20 excess. Does TO-
bacco cause cancere This question has
been disputed when answered IN the AZ
hrmative, largely because among The the
vast number Of smokers in the world so
few of them have cane Yet IN Eng
lish statistics il has been shown that out
Of seventy-eight cases OF cancer Of the
mouth treated IN 8 cancer hospital only
ten cases were those Of women. Taking
this showing. and The fact that q wound
OF any kind on a person disposed TO can
Ger may produce the disease. II is not
a hard pipestem on the lip. with the con
seQUent irritation OF nicotine, may be the
direct cause
Aside from these most serious conse-
Que1ces OF smoking. there is unrnisrak-
able evidence that weakened muscles and
tremUlOuSDess result in nearly al cases.
This IS so weu recognized that for arh-
letes in training smoking is prohibited
For rife shooting the smoker suffers as
much from shally nerves as from his eye
sight and few records have been made
by men who were inveterate smokers
Tobacco smoke contains quite a large
proportion OF the poisonous gas carbon
mOnOxids. II a mere uouthful OF to
baccO smoke be blown upon q dilute so
luton OF blood, pink ColOratiOn at once
appears which IS characteristic OF the
compound formed when carbon monoxide
unites with haemoglobin and spous its
healthy function. Subsequently Il has
been shown that the proportion OF carbon
mOnOXide IN tobacco smoke IS consider
able, and Il IS a question whether nico-
tine can be held 10 be responsible at all
for the symptoms summed up IN the
words tobacco smoke poisoning. At
all events Il Is well known that though
nicotine exists n tobacco. yet q very
small proportion OF it appears IN the to
bacco smoke
Undoubtedly there are poisonous oils
present, chief among which IS pyridIn
Pyridin apart. however. Il Is certain that
one OF the abundant products OF com
bUstion (or rather Of incompiets con-
bustiOn which the production Of smoke
implies) IS the poisonous gas carbon
monoxide. Il has been calculated in
D-o c+fra1 e-Da-sr-e-es the c-s orrD~o %
tobacco when smoked IN the form OF