The Glenwood post., 1912-04-20
LANDS HEAVY ON
TOBACCO nABIT
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numb the nerves, frequently causing
paralysis. They also weaken the heart.
As rule pupils who use cigaretts
do the poorest work General school
statistics of school work show that
only six out of every hundred cigar
cite smokers pass the second year OF
high school, while 95 out of every 100
non-smoking boys acquire good edu'
cation. Therefore they can hardly ever
get good position.
Out of the highest scholarship men.
only about five use tobacco, while OF
the men who do not get appointments
over 90 per cent are tobacco users.
Many young men have acquired the
opium habit by cigarette smoking. The
cigarette is mghtier than the saloon
for the following reasons: ''1t is more
easily obtained than liquor sit IS
cheaper it includes the alcohol habit
since its continued use develops the
craving for liquor lit goes deeper and
further than the saloon. The cigar
cite is the only royal road to the pen
itentiary. 1t is responsible for mote
crime than any other one thing today,
SO far as the Juvenile court is con-
cerned.
Doors of opportunity are closed t,
cigarette smokers.
Out of 80 boyy imprisoned in the
county Jail during six months, all but
two are cigarette fends.
The cigarette habit is the path along
which boys march to drunkenness, de,
clares judge.
And Harold Hamilton, Chicago art
ist, who smoked cigarettes for Is
years, says, "It is no more possible
for an inveterate, poison soaked cigar
ette 6end to continue his life without
the aid of whisky than it would be
without the aid of tobacco itself
In London, Ontario, lad l9 years
old, cigarette fend, took to whisky
and the two habits brought on "clgar
ette tremens.' He went crazy and is
now in the asylum.
ture that are capable of destroying life
SO suddenly as tobacco.
DR.. Franklin applied the oily mate.
rial which floats on the surface of
water when current of tobacco smoke
is passed into it, to the tongue of a
cat, and found it to destroy life in a
few minutes.
The prolonged use Of tobacco. es
pecially when it is chewed, causes the
total loss of sight
Mr.. Solly, an eminent writer on the
brain, said once in lecture, 81 know
of no other cause or agent which tends
so much to lead TO organic diseases Of
the braun as the excessive use of To-
bacco. The influence of tobacco on tha
human system is quite as much to be
dreaded as the use Of alcohol. Not one
young man in a hundred would ever
think of using intoxicating liquors did
he not first learn to use tobacco in
some form.
Daughters of drunken fathers do not
inherit hankering after liquor, Meth
er would the sons did they but abstain
from the use of tobacco. And yet min
listers of the gospel and many of the
deaeons of our churches, good men, so
called, who preach temperance to tn,
youths of the land INCREASINGLY, keep
their mouths filled with the vile stuff
or make smokehouses of their heads rs
If the end and aim of life with them
was to pickle their tongues in smoke
and their whole bodies are SO saturated
with the vile stuff that their neigh.
bors' nostrils announce their coming
afar off.
The smoking of single cigar and
especially by those not long habituateI
to its use, will increase the pulse from
ten to fifteen beats. DR.. Tuitchell
states that nearly all the sudden deaths
occurring during sleep which came un.
der his observation, were those of per
sons who had INDUCED largely in tho
use of tobacco. And subsequently, the
correctness of his statements was con
irmed by investigations made by the
Boston Society Of Medical Observa
tions.
Tobacco in different forms costs the
people of the United States more than
*30,000,o0o annually, all of which IS
far worse than if thrown away.
1t impairs the voice, furrows the
cheek and saliows the complexion.
And last, but not least, it makes
angry mothers and scolding wives.
For example, the complaint of the