Lower coast gazette., 1914-03-21

Fairbanks Morse Motor. IL hors'
power Motor Engine in good order
used but little. Apply to John L
.Buras or Dominic Lombardo, Buras P
O. La.
Effects of Cigarette Smoking or
the Body.
Experience truly is the best teacher
and the writer's experience has giyer
him ample opportunity to observe tn,
insidious effects Of cigarette smoking
A boy who has used cigarettes for any
length Of time, especially one who in
hales the smoke into the lungs,-a ant
most of them do, -can usually be iden
titled by his: lack Of physical and men
tai development.
Boys cannot use cigarettes and de-
velop normally. The heart, the brair
and the nervous system are most ser
leusly affected by the tobacco poison
The evil effects. of this habit on tn.
heart can be understood when one reads
that tout of II, 1896 men who applied
for enlistment in the English army, on.
ly 3,078 passed the required physical
examination. The majority rejected
were suffering from heart disease re-
sulting from the use of tobacco. In
1902 sixty-seyen young men, apparent
ly in the best OF health, appeared for
examination to enter the medical de-
partment Of the United States army.
To their surprise forty-thfee Were re-
jected: on account Of t~obacco-heart.
The testimony Of many directors Of
college gymnasiufas could also be given
but the above will su~ficea3to ishow the
injurious action'o of tobaccoton the heart
Luther Burbank the great plant ex-
pert says: ITO assist me in my work
of budding, work that is as accurate
and exacting as Matchmaking, / have
a force of some twenty men. + dis
charge them from this force at the
first show of incompetency. Sometime
ago my foreman asked meeif / took
pains II. inquire into the personal hab.
its OF my men. On being answered in
the negative, he surprised. me by. say
ing that the men / found unable to do
the delicate work Of budding invariably
turned out to be smokers and drinkers.
Even men who smoke .ons cigar a day l
cannot trust with some of my delicate
work. Cigarettes are even more dam
aging than cigars, and their use BY
boys is little short Of criminal
A cigarette smoker IS untitled. to do;
good mental work, proving the detri-
mental effect of nicotin OH, the brain. I
Know men, users Of the cigarette, who
were unable to mernorize simple quo
tatisns. A head nurse in the Minneso-
ia Hospital for the Insane, recently re-
marked: .''Iti is astonishing the num-
Der OF women who come to rs who have
become insane from smoking cigarettes
In another asylum three clsrgymen
called incessantlyfo fol this poison, which
had dethroned their reason. Think OIL
It,. Men who once had fine intellects.
men who had proclaimed the libertysof
the gospel were themselves slaves to
the cigarette habit, and were ruined by
It. 4, -
Another proof of the effect Of tobac-
on the mind is that it weakens the
will power. have heard many e per-
son say Il will stop and a few days
alter have met him still smoking. There
$ but n sure way for one who 3 sad
iicted to the use Of tobacco to obtain
'elease from its thralldom, and that is
% ask God for strength. In his own
strength. man can never obtain nor
maintain his freedom, for the poisons
laye taken too great q hold on him.
dis will p0weris largely. DESTROYED.
An eminent oculist declares that to-
'acco using is the direct cause of a GER
ain form of blindness.
To show the effects of the cigarette
lablt upon the nervous system, n in
'ident in the Filipino rebellion will suf-
ice: Our company was ordered out
'ne morning, and each man knew that
here would be trouble before he got
PACK. One young man an inveterate
cigarette smoker, became so pale and
nervous that it was necessary TO- order
1lm from the ranks and to leave him
Think of his humiliation due
o the manly habit of cigarette smok-
ing!
Inc cigarette has a very injurious
effect on growing boys. After begin
mig the habit, the boy becomes listless
nervous, irritable. pale, and in athletic
sports he is generally q mere locker on.