The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-06-06

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although the greatest danger is that
! disease germs may be inhaled and
lodge in the unhealthy parts where
the lungs and blood not being able
to fight it, it may develop into as dan
gerous disease as to cause death.
| Statistics show that a large percent
age of the tuberculosis and pneu-
monia patients are constant users of
alcohol.
The heart, being muscle, is affect
ed similar to other muscles. The
increased action caused by the be-
| aforementioned condition of the
blood, develops the fibers and if al
coholism be continued the heart will
increase in size, weight, and hard
ness, resulting in palpitation of the
heart and later, hardening to such an
extent that it is not able to perform
its duties. Destitute the means to
export the waste material, and be-
ing continually supplied with poison,
the fibers become degraded and dis
| eased so that sickness in another
part of the body may seriously af-
feet it. Fatty degeneration of the
heart results from the worn out
cells of the heart turning to fat.
The expense of liquor is never
limited for it does not stop when the
cost of a glass or two has passed
| over the counter. That is but the be-
ginning. The hours of unconscious
ness or insensibility and sick head
ache which follow are hours of
waste and idleness which is so much
money lost. For sometime after the
use of alcohol the person does not
feel equal to his work which stead
lily decreases in quality. With this
there soon comes lowering of
wages and finally he has the pleas
ure of looking for a new position.
That prohibition is steadily in
creasing is shown by the different
! fraternities and brotherhoods sup
pressing alcohol The leading So
cieties will not uphold an erring
brother The fate of the engineer
of the Corning wreck is that he is
forever discharged and disgraced
by railroad circles and will never be
allowed a responsible position on
any railroad in the United States.
Thus it is true that no one living in
wet country is safe from alcohol
for perhaps many of the victims of
this disaster, as we'll as of the terri
stainers; yet their lives were lost
through liquor. If a college athlete
is found using alcohol or tobacco the
anger of the students is so great that
he is Immediately hissed out of col
lege.
If tobacco is used by a person who
has an inherited tendency to cancer,
the cancer is liable to break out in
the mouth because of the direct con-
tact of the tobacco on the men,
branes of the mouth.
While tobacco is being chewed
the salivary glands are kept in con-
tinual activity and much of the sa-
Iva is lost in splitting. When saliva
is needed to digest food, that which
flows is of a poor quality and fails
to work properly and indigestion
soon results.
The absorption of the nicotine in
the membranes of the mouth serious
ly affects the heart SO that about one
fourth of the steady smokers show
an irregular heart beat. The United
States naval academy reject such
applicants and students are no long
er allowed to use tobacco.
Cigarettes are the most harmful
form of tobacco because of the way
the smoke is inhaled and carried to
the lungs when the air sacs readily
absorb it. 1t creates an appetite for
itself so that a cigarette fiend can
neither work nor enjoy himself with
out it.
A few of the business corpora
tions demand workers who are men
tally, morally and physically sound,
30 A.
cigarettes. From Kansas we hear
that " Of ninety boys who had been
put in jail during six months of nine
teen hundred two all but two were
addicted to the use of cigarettes, !"
and this from police magistrate in
New York: ''Ninety-nine out of every
one hundred boys between the ages
of ten and seventeen years who come
before me charged with crime have
their fingers stained with cigar
ettes."
The disadvantage to the public is
even greater than can be imagined
for the loss of life is not to be COM
pared to money. The Religious
Weekly says: Cigarettes for boys
spell tragedy everywhere. The fire
at Bangor last Sunday began with a
careless smoker. The Baltimore fire,
the Chelsea-Boston fire, the fire of
the Windsor Hotel, New York, the
Albany statehouse fire, and the hor-
rible Triangle Waist Company holo-
caust, all of these with human char
red bodies, and wrecked homes and
lives are traced to the carelessness
and brutal disregard accompanying
the cigarette habit" These, then,
are a few results of tOhacno
Nearly three-fourths of the crimes
of our land are traced directly to
alcohol of tobacco, and the children
and poor people in our almshouses
were nearly all sent there by alcohol.
The taxes paid by saloon keepers is
very small percentage of the cost