The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-05-30
Published by reques-
Effects of Cigarette Smoking
on the Body
EDWARD QUINN, JR.

Exp ,rieace truly $ the best teacher,
and the writer's experience II - given
him a nple Opportunity to ooservt the
insidlous effects Of cigarette smoking.
A boy wno IS usei cigarettes for any
length OF time, especially one who IN e
haIes the smoke into the lungs, and
most of them do,-can usually be ident
fled by his lach OF physical and mental
development.
Boys cannot use cigarette.and develop
normally. The heart, the brain. and the
neryuu US system are most seriously at
fecte1 by the tobacco poison.
The evil effects OF THIS habit on the
heart can be understood when one reads
that "out of IL $50 men who applied for
enlistment in the English army only
a,0.s passed the required physical ex-
animation. The majority rejected were
suffering from heart disease resulting
from the use of tobacco.
In 1902 sixty seven Young men, ap-
farentls in the best oi health, appeared
for examination to enter the medical
departm Mt of the United States army.
To their surprise forty three were re-
jected on account Of tobacco heart.
A cigarette smoker is untitled to do
good mental work, proving the detri-
mental effect OF nIcOtin on the brain.
know men, users of the cigarette, who
were unable to memoir ze simple quota
tons A head nurse in the Mime sofa
Hospital for the Insane, recently re-
marked. 1T is astonishing the ntmbes
OF women who come to us who have be-
come insane from smoking cigarettes.
In another as, lum three clergymen
called necessarily for this poison, which
had de hroned their reason. Think of
it, Men who once had fine intellects,
men who haa proclaimed the liberty OF
the gospel. were themselves slaves to the
cigarette habit. and were ruined by it.
Another proof of the effect of tobacco
on the mind Is that it weakens the will
power. | have heard many person
say, Il will stop and a few days later
have met him still smoking. There is
but one sure way for one who is addicted
to the use of cigarets to obtain release
from its throldym, and that is to ash
God for streugh. In his own strength,
man can never obtain nor maintain his
fte sdom, for the poisons have taken too
great hold on him. His will power is
largely destroyed.
An eminent oculist declares that to-
bacco using is the direct cause of a GER
tain form of blindness.
To show the effects of the cigarette
habit upon the nervous system, one in
cident in the Filipino rebellion will suf
flee: Our company was ordered out one
morning and each man knew that there
would be trouble before he got back
One young man. an inveterate cigarette
smoker, became so pale and nervous that
it was necessary to order him from the
ranks, and to leave him behind. Think
of his humiliation due to the manly (D
habit of cigarette smoking!
The cigarette has very injurious ef
feet on growing boys. After beginning
the habit the boy becomes listless, nerv-
Gus, irritable, pale and in athletic sports
he is generally mere on-looker.
One of the quickest means Of getting
medicine into the system is by inhalation
1t can readily be seen. therefore, that
when the poisons in tobacco are inhaled
they are gwen most favorable ppor-
tunlty for doing their deadly work upon
the human system. The use of that
poison can have but one effect, and that
is decidedly injurious one, upon the
mental and bodily functions.