The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1922-04-27
WHY HIGH SCHOOL STUD
ENTS SHOULD FIGHT
CIGARETTES
BY John DYk

II. w.
The cigarette Is made from
tobacco, which is wrapped in a
paper. The paper is cured in
acid which makes 1t very white
and attractive. Tobacco is one
OF the most common narcotics
that Ia used.
Tobacco Is the leaf Of tall
plant. containing narcotic pois-
ON called nicotine. This gives the
tobacco most of its taste, and If
Il ia taken out. II Is spoiled. 1t
is easily turned into n vapor,
aud IA found In the smoke when
tobacco ia burned. This nicotine
IA so poisonous that the smoke
Of two or three cigarettes is
enough To kill "a man IL 1t should
stay IN hts body. The nicotine
OF few puffs Of smoke makes
u person very weak and sick
when he first begins to smoke.
which shows how poisonous It Is.
The effect OF tobacco on the
heart heats and blood pressure
IA very Injurious causing u con-
siderable increase IN heart rate
and u decrease In blood pressure.
Thus tho control OF tho heart Is
seriously impaired by smoking.
When the heart beats more rap
idly and with less strength, II
causes shorter life. Sometimes
tho heart beats slower than 1t
should for little while. then
becomes more rapid until it's
beat can be plainly felt. The
result is that the smoker cannot
work so hard as he should. His
heart beats with violence, but
drives the blood with little force.
1t makes the person very short
of breath. because the blood does
not circulate in the lungs as it
should. When the heart of a
young person is injured by to-
bacco. there is a great danger
that it will stay that way all
its life. Athletes should never
smoke because it weakens their
heart and makes them short
winded.
The nicotine of tobacco makes
the throat tender and the voice
hoarse. 1t hurts the nerves, SO
that there is feeling as though
something is stuck in the throat.
BY keeping the throat tender in
this way a person makes himself
more liable to take cold. To-
bacco smoke in the windpipe and
bronchi is still more harmful,
for these parts are more tender
than the throat. Many poisOns
are in tobacco which all enter
the body by means of cigarette
smoke, which is easily drawn
deeply into the lungs and is like
ly to remain in the body and
poison the smoker. Some cigaret-
ties have substances added to
them to improve their taste.
Some of these are likewise harm
full and they are mostly put there
as a trick.
One of the most dreadful eff
fects of the constant use of to-
bacco is that it hinders the
growth of the body, poisoning
the muscles, and causes physical
precision and nervous-muscular
control.
Smoking makes more saliva
flow than the mouth can take
care of. The splitting which this
causes ought to keep anyone
from using tobacco. 1t does not
help digestion, but those who use
it are very apt to have a coated
tongue and a headache showing
that their food is not digested
as it should be. A sore throat,
a cough and a husky voice are
direct results of using tobacco.
The use of tobacco makes the
brain very weak. The smoker
cannot think as we'll as the nom
smoker.
Babies can be made sick by
tobacco or cigarette smoke in
room with them. The young are
poisoned much sooner by tobacco
than older persons. In the young
it binders the growth of the body
and boys who wish to grow to
be large men should never use
tobacco in any form. 1t causes
thinness of the flesh, and pale
pasty complexion.
lODdCCO dHu uIlHh ~ NCIy
we'll together. A drinker almost
always uses tobacco for it's pois-
on seems to relieve the poison
of alchohol, but it only seems to
do so, for it almost always makes
person want more drink, al
though there would not be SO
much danger of it in this coun-
try because the use of drink has
been prohibited.
When the men are smoking,
they let the smoke curl out of
their mouth or nose with little
force. The smoke then gets in
contact with the eye and causes
the eye to smart SO that the
tears will flow. In some cases
it causes the nerve of sight to
waste away.
Tobacco destroys the sense Of
taste, and the sense of smell.
Tobacco does not taste good at
first, but men learn to like it.
1t destroys the taste, and after
wards the smoker cannot tell
whether he is eating good whole
some food or not. Tobacco Is
irritating to the nose, and spoils
the sense of smell. When this
is spoiled the great safeguard
against bad air and bad food is |
taken away.
Besides all the elects on the