The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1916-04-14
rreet Of Tobacco Smoking Upon
Us ueart and the Arteries.

.. Of tobacco upon the
rbs enc indicated by the pulse.
-sart Is ,be action of the Irritating
through y "aI the nerves the heart is
o.so1s p";,nrlared. The pulse is
greatly sd much more rapid. Nor
Stronger 90, are about seventy-two
r1E INN, ms per minute. Under the
,al,4,,loD'o nj tobacco smoke there are
,i1uI's, ~, ca>c- in which the pulse
-.lGvI.I' more than one hundred.
-..es 1" ,ort fifteen minutes after
within @ I,.rrr the irritation ceases
he l HI I",gSrr3ric effects begin to mani
l1a 'l'' ,..a,yrs. The strength OF the
Mt '- ra.r falls far below the normal.
lslri .I ,1a !. described as small"
I1e .'a- and irregular" There is
t'eo. ,;,r PARALYSIS Of the heart. 1t
t'. .:r"as misses beat. In the
-l. ...".J smoker this enfeebled action
.41.'"-h a.rr continuous, except
d u' me habit is being INDUCED.
We'll - :, X that one smoke calls for
aeI- Th5. is especially true OF
ll'"S r.rprre. The boy whose heart
lr g2%nmr tnuS enfeebled lacks en-
%, 40 i, physically and mentally
~! n woulG he dangerous for him
az ,aarrakp am thing requiring great
Y .1 .;nn I'll extra strain thrown
@r."G ,5o heart might result in sud-
lv" death. From boys having such
s'I nafure wisely takes away the
-'a n;tion 10 eNertiOn. A little extra
iD. zion produces palpitation of the
:,,-t and yhortness of breath.
~horp j. diseased condition Of the
-, which j. so characteristic of
- .-'nic tobacco-poisoning that it has
.-,, apnr0friAtely called tobacco
..,-t Medical statistics show that
-., orp in every four smokers have
,s' condition. During the Spanish
,".-ran war about three-fourtns of
. , vino Volunteered for services in
,r army h&d 10 lie rejected because
.rfrn sS fer service. Ninety per
~. of these rejected volunteers
,..s smoker When a call was made
,- onr yuung medical men to enter
..a army. OF SiXty-Seven who VOlun-
.-.-pd fort, three were rejected be-
.rs4 they had tobacco heart. When
:rggnd called for volunteers during
,,a Roer wa. out OF twelve thousand
rto applied at Manchester, nine
.-nr,gnd had To be rejected, chiefly
t-.3use OF tobacco heart. They
.onp to US" said the examiners, with
mir fingers stained with nicotine
mrng tine last thirty years the
t-ath rate from diseases of the heart
md arteries has increased monre than
Mo hundred per cent. There has
.een larger increase in the death
rate from diseases of the kidneys and
from cancer The increase in NOR
.i-y from rhe>. diseases is confined
"a the male population. Women live
longer than men. The death rate be-
vppn the ages OF forty and fifty is
g0ying rapidly among men. That
there is CO. uectiOn between this in
crayp in III" mortality of men and
.l- smoking habit there is no room
for DOUBT. the cigarette did not find
fl way into the United States until
about fifty Years ago. We are now
BEGINNING To reap the effects from its
Sc
Dr. j. F"wiusEi. head of a hospital
IN Warsaw nns made a careful study
NJ %i@h cases of hardening of the
arteries. They were studied in two
groups The first group consisted of
.o1i case Il which the hardening
vas located in the arteries that sup
Ny the har' Smoking, obesity. and
4mAol wtr" the chief causes of this
disease. Stacking was a simple fac
III in -oH cases, a combined factor in