The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-31
Medical Men and Athletes DISCUSS Dangers
of Cigarettes to Boys and Young Men

arterio- sclerosis, and even to Insanity.
Eighty per cent. Of applicants for adj
mission 70 army service. both in Eng
land and In the United States. were re-
jccted az unfit owing TO what is known
as tobacco heart This il appalling.
for If three-fourths OF our young men
are UNIT for army service, they are GER
tainly unfit to assume the responsible
ties of progenitors of a fit race. So
says DR.. kress Of Washington. -. c.
DIR. j. II. Kellogg says that in his
opinion the tobacco habit Is the worst
vice OF civilization. The great English
surgeon DR.. Abernethy declared thai
tobacco stupefies the moral sense. DR..
hecley states that tobacco enfeebles d.
sestion, produces emaciation and gem
erdl debility; 1t lays the foundation for
nearly every nervous disorder now COM
mon to the American people; IL pro-
Juices color blindness, partial or total
loss of vision, various .orins OF insanity.
epilepsy, bronchitis, rheumatism and
asthma. dyspepsia and catarrh, tobacco
heart and cancer OF the stomach.
DR.. George Critchett. a distinguished
London oculist. says he Is constantly
consulted for b indness occasioned solely
by great smoking.
DIR. Woodward OF the Massachusetts,
Insane Asylum reports as follows: That
tobacco produces insanity, / am fully
confident
DIR Nathan Allen OF Lowell, Mass,
gives this evidence: Tobacco perverts
the taste. impairs mental capacity. cor
rupts the moral sense and stimulates
he animal nature; It's dreadful evils
through the law of inheritance, extend
10 offspring even 20 the second, third
and fourth generation
"Dr. o. NJ. Stone OF Boston declares:
a tobacco users chances of recovery
from malignant diseases is lessened 30
per cent.
The professors in the University of
Michigan, who have had n long expert
ence among thousands OF young men,
regard tobacco as having a worse effect
than even liquor, affirming that more
young men break down in body and
mind and finally go astray as result
Of smoking than Of drinking. while the
former often leads to the latter.
Cigarettes have clearly the most to
, answer for. in the opinion Of compe-
tent judges"
L. ID. Crothers. NJ. D.. superintendent
of Walnut Lodge Hospital, Hartford.
Conn: Experience and observation are
united in this conclusion that the
cigarette smoker Is the most degener-
ate palsied Of all users Of tobacco. Some
laboratory experiments show concu-
sively that tobacco containo aldehyde
and other substances which are exceed
ingly dangerous when introduced into
the system. and the anomaly OF finding
one man very seriously affected from
smoking and another scarcely injured
by 1t affords TO criterion from which
to Judge.
| my conclusions, based on the study
OF n very large number Of persons. are
that the effects Of smoking on young
men and boys are decidedly injurious
and dangerous In the long run. In this
| have seen no exceptions"
\ William G. Anderson. Or. p H., NJ D.,
Professor and Director OF the Yale Uni
versty Gymnasium.-"It is the consen-
sus OF opinion among most athletes that
smoking Is detrimental and the majority
OF men training for teams do not use
/ tobacco. And finally academic stand
ing OF the smoker is lower than that
OF the non-smoker."
/ George L. Meylan, A. NJ, NJ. d., Medi-
/ ca, Director Columbia University
3
! ing hygiene and physical education to
/ boys and young men has convinced me
/ that tobacco Is injurious to growing
youths. The class of boys and young
men, coming under my observation in
cludes very few VINO begin smoking be-
fore the age OF 1s or who smoke excess
sively.
THE effects which may be attributed
at least In part to the use OF tobacco by
adoescents are rapid and irregular
pulse QOO-12O), poor circulation mani
tested by pallor Of skin and cold ex-
tremities, poor wind and lack of en-
durance, nervousness and irrtabllity.
These abnormal conditions are most
marked in youths who are OF nervous
temperament. lead an unhygicnic life
and use much tobacco, Some cases
have come under my observation where
the excessive use Of tobacco was I'M
doubleday the chief cause In producing
unfavorshle symptoms. This was proved
by the rapid and marked improvement
which took place when the use Of to-