Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1920-06-15

hal is continued the older cells are
also broken down. Is it any wonder
that one who uses il cannot think
clearly while such ruin is going on?
1t is in this way that many insane.
epileptic, and defective persons are
directly produced by the poison, al
cohol.
When Thomas q Edison was
asked why he did not use alcohol he
replied, Because ! have better use
for my brains"
However. the alcohol is not carried
to the brain alone but also to the
stomach, the heart, and all cells of
the body, where its destructive work
is continued. In no way does alcohol
contribute to good health
Alcohol affects the morals, which
are habits or customs of life. One
has good morals who is capable of
distinguishing right from wrong. In
the first place one who uses alcohol
shows that he does not have good
morals because he wastes his money
for that which brings him no good
but is the source of much evil. After
he has begun the use of alcohol his
morals are lowered still more because
the effect on his brain handicaps his
ability to distinguish right and
wrong. Would any person who had
good morals beat his wife and chill
dren or deprive them of the necessi-
ties of life? The use of alcohol is
the greatest source of crime known.
Tobacco is made up of more deadly
poisons than even alcohol. There
fore, we cannot expects it's work to
be any less harmful. The effects of
tobacco are not so quickly discernible
as those of alcohol because the pois-
onous smoke which is breathed is
Immediately exhaled so that it has
similar effect to that of chloroform
Ordinary tobacco contains seven per
cent nicotine, which, next to prussic
acid, is the most deadly poison
though, we see the smoker, espe-
cially the young smoker. use the
cigarette, the worst form of tobacco
Cigarettes are usually made of odds
and ends of tobacco, including refuse,
which is then seasoned with opium
and other drugs to give the desired
flavor Besides this, the cigarette
paper frequently contains arsenic
and alum. Edison says that all
burning paper has deadly poison
known as acrotein.
How terribly tobacco must injure
the body. DR.. L. E. Kelley, the ex-
pert on tobacco, says: Tobacco en-
feebles digestion, produces emacia-
ton, and general debility. 1t lays
the foundation for nearly every ner-
vous disorder now common to the
American people. I. produces amau-
rosis. color blindness, epilepsy. bron-
chitis, rheumatism, asthma, dyspep-
STA, catarrh. tobacco heart, and can
Ger of the stomach"
Such statements make it easy %
sense of good morals. These are low
cred so much that the smoker does
not notice that he may be offending
some one else by the smoke with
which he pollutes the air. AS it is
the smoke which contains most of
the poison. the one required to
breathe it is injured also We hear
boys called towards because they do
not smoke. Since low mentality,
moral delinquency and cigarette
smoking. are nearly always found in
company with each other, the one
who uses cigarettes is not showing
manliness and great ability but is
placing himself in the class Of weak
lings. Some weak-minded are invet-
crate smokers.
We now see that tobacco and alco-
hol are two very important subjects
which should be intelligently studied
by young people in order that they
may always remember the harmful
effects on their bodies and morals
caused by these poisons. One reason
that the liquor traffic has been abol-
ished is because the matter has been
carefully studied, with the result
that many startling effects have been
brought to light. Therefore, when
young people study intelligently the
effecs of tobacco it will not be long
until the day is reached when to-
bacco is likewise banished.