The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1926-06-24


known weed. He said, ut is good for
nothing but to choke man and fill
him full of smoke and ambers." Lamb
didn't feel that way about it. He once
said, For thy sake tobacco, l would
do anything but die.
And while we're with the great lit
craft ON this topic, here's quotation
which shows how times have changed
since Cowper's day, when he wrote
the following:
"Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair
annoys;
Unfriendly to society's chief joys,
Thy worst effect is banishing for hours
The sex whose presence civilizes
ours"
How the civilizing sex has changed!
Today the ladies-"God bless 'em"-
don't object to tobacco. They use it
themselves. Apart from the looks of
the thing, smoking is harmful to
woman in the same degree that it is to
a boy of fourteen, because here nerv-
GUS apparatus is as delicate and sens
tive as that of such boy.
The use of tobacco is, however,
harmful to anybody, man or woman,
whether used moderately or excessive
ly. The harm is naturally, like every
thing else, a matter of degree. Some
suffer less i'll effect than others. AS
Ben johnson would say, they can
stand more Smoke and embers".
Whenever a man reaches the over
| ripe age of ninety he is asked for an
interview on how and why, in his opin-
ion, he lives so long. Old Uncle Eb-
enezer will say that it is because he
"never touched tobacco" The follow
ing week, Grandpa Snodgrass-an-
other OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES out with
statement, between puffs at his pipe,
that he's "been smoking since he was
eleven years DID," It's the old story
of the personal equation.
Tobacco has had some bitter enc
mics, and most of the warfare has
been waged against the cigarette,
whose strongest opponent was Lucy
Page CASTOR. She never said much
against pipes and cigars but concen-
trated her efforts against the cigarette
not knowing that, despite popular
belief, the latter is the least harm
full of the three. And while | am on
the cigarette, let me say that all the
talk about the paper being the harm
full part is pure nonsense.
Inhaling Harmful
The harmful effect of smoking con-
sists in the inhaling of nicotine. And
the amount of nicotine the smoker de-
ponds, not on the kind of tobacco, but
the manner in which he uses it. Dur
ing the burning of tobacco-let us say,
of a cigar-there is behind the seat of
combustion moist area in which the
water and volatile substances are con-
densed and drawn into the mouth with
the smoke Inasmuch as there is enoug
nicotine in the average cigar to kill
an ordinary man it is evident that only
fraction of this is inhaled, the re-
mainder being destroyed by the pro-
cess of combustion.
Obviously, then, the larger this
moist area of condensation, the more
nicotine will be volatilized and inhaled.
1t follows that cigarettes and pam
tellas are the least injurious, while
thick cigars and pipes are the most
harmful. Also, the longer cigar is
smoked the more harmful it becomes,
because of the increased amount of
moisture. Every smoker knows that
thin cigar is not as "strong" as
thick one, and that the first two-thirds
of a cigar are milder than the last
one-third.
AS for pipes, the long -stemmed kind
are preferable to the short-stemmed,
because when the smoke passes
through long stem it is cooled and
the volatile substances are deposited
along the lining of the stem In the
short-stemmed pipe the smoke is still
hot when it enters the mouth, and all
the volatile substances are inhaled.
The time of day one used tobacco
has considerable bearing on it's effects.
Thus, smoking a cigarette before
breakfast is as injurious as are three
"pills" afterward. Smoking "on an
empty stomach is more injurious than
it is after full meal. Smoking be-
tween courses at dinner is bad. 1t re-
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