Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-06-06

graded school III Edgeield county
won by Lewis Moss of Trenton.
The prize was $500 in gold given
by Edgefeld county w. G. L. w.
Tobacco is a plant that is thought
to have originated in America and
was taken to Europe by Raleigh's
men. Now it's use has spread all
over the world even to the rudest
savages. 1t is smoked in the pipe,
cigar, cigarette, and some men
seem to relish it as a COW does her
cud. 1t contains about three per
cent of nicotine, the most deadly
poison in the world except prussic
acid. The pipe is horrible and
deadly enough, but the cigaret is
by far the most dangerous form,
for besides the three main added
drugs in cigarette tobacco sugar,
arsenic and salt petre) several other
poisons added to the paper to make
it good" Chewing tobacco is dip
ped in a licorioe solution.
IF tobacco were more harmful,
less harm would be done by it."
This quotation tells a great truth,
for the harm comes On slowly but
surely--so much 80 that the user is
unconscious of it. The three main
added drugs in cigarette tobacco,
when burned give off a poisonous
gas that is highly injurious to the
lungs. The poison passes through
the thin lining of the airsacks after
severely injuring them (the airsacks)
and harms the entire system. The
first athlete to drop out of a race
is usually a drinker or smoker, for
smoking is bad for the wind. A
common smokers desease is Hsmok-
er's sore throat"
Chewing does most harm to the
heart, for the juices from the tobac-
co pass into the stomach, thence
through the intestinal walls (which
are very thiD) and injure the heart
as the smoke does the lungs. The
result is heart burn" and the to-
bacco heart or fatted organ beatings
weakly and irregularly, sometimes
too fast and vice versa. The heart
being thus weakened causes indi-
gestion. This trouble usually stop
with discontinuance of the tobacco
habit.
The brain and nervous system are
more harmed by tobacco than any
part of the body. Tobacco in
small amounts soothes, or rather in
tends to soolhe, a worried or excited
person. But at the same moment
it makes him forget business and
idle away his time. When the
first effects have passed, unrest fol-
lows, and more tobacco is used to
quiet it. Thus the. drug habit be-
gins. In a short time the brain be-
comes very active. If the use is
continued very much longer the
brain becomes SO active that the
user cannot sleep, and the nerves
lose control of the muscles. A
murderer has been known to be
freed because. he was insane from
cigarettes. Students from the ranks
of tobacco users stand less chance
of making their grade or winning
some mental contest than the oppo-
site. Cancer is often caused by to-
bacco, and one of the symptoms of
hookworm is to crave for it. 1t
makes US less endurable tobacco
does) and makes US more liable to
disease germs.
This drug has an astounding eff
feet on prohibition. The smoke so
infames the body that an antidote
is demanded. At first water will
do, but oon something stronger Is
wanted and a drink habit is started.
Thus seyenty-ive per cent of all
drinking cases are caused by tobac-
CO.
To the younger boys it does far
greater harm than to adults. Be-
sides all the harm described it pre-
vents maturity. A cigarette boy at
sixteen rarely becomes a man.
Young boys have practically no
chance at all of becoming a normal
adult.
Tobacco often debars a young
mar from securing work at many
large business houses, In fact,
throughout the business world he
stands less chance than the non-user.
Tobacco users lose consideration
for the rights of others. Yellow
fingers and stained teeth are un-
pleasant sights and many persons
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