The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-11-08
EFFECTS OF TOBACCO ON HEALTH

How does tobacco affect health? The answer 10 this is mainly expert opinion, though there is some scientific evidence to support medical opinion The facts give here are my glean- ings or conclusions from the works and current utterances of many medical authorities.
 So far effects are concerned it makes lit tie difference whether tobacco is chewed, smoked in pipe, cigar or cigaret or snuffed
 Fully developed adults (persons 22 to 24 years of age) may use tobacco temperatey for many years without apparent injury to heaith. Children (persons as yet undeveioped) are ln- variably injured even by casual indulgence.
 What constitutes temperate or moderate use There is consensus about this. but falr limit is total abstinence during the working day. indulgence only after the days job is done, the evening meal is over and the hour of re- taxation or revere has come. The deyotee who is not an addict knows that such temperance gives the greatest enjoyment The slave of the tobacco habit who musters sufficient strength to recover self control adds his or her testimony to the truth of this.S
 Any tobacco addict who has one or more. of the following complaints ought to consider seriously whether continued excess is wise:
 Irritable, hacking unproductive cough.
 Dyspepsia with without heartburn In some cases the symptoms are difficult to dis tinguish from those of duodenal ulcer.
 Constantly furred or coated tongue.
 Abnormaly rapid pulse-physicians call 1t tachycardia.
 Palpitation or consciousness of heart action.
 High blood pressure without obvious organic cause Tobacco is common factor of this.
 Tremor of the fingers or the extended nanu.
 Vertigo dizziness.
 Frequent or daily dull headache with irrita- bility irascibility.
 Insomnia
 Now for good measure let us toss in some of the more lugubrious pathological effects or prolonged heavy use of tobacco:
 Amblyopia (any impairment of vision). First there is failing perception of green later loss of perception of red-tobacco color-blindness, which probably accounts for many accidents from failure to heed traffic signals \ Pseudo-Angina Pectoris: This condition of inveterate users of tobacco may be impossible to distinguish from true angina.
 Progressive deafness with without tinnitus (head noises)
 Infantalism or retarded development in one or more ways, where the tobacco habit is ac2 quired in childhood. v
 Cancer of lip, tongue or throat, in later life, is ascribed by good physicians to tobacco ad- diction.
 No one knows whether it is the nicotine or other constituents of tobacco, it's juice or It's smoke, that accounts for the characteristic ef- fleets.
 It is immaterial whether smoker "inhales or not, though of course inhaling the smoke exposes q greater area of mucous membrane and hence the drug is more quickly absorbed and the effects more quickly felt.
 There is TO appreciable difference in effect between so-called mild and strong tobaccos or between so called light and dark There is nc satisfactory evidence that so-called denlcotin- iZed tobacco or tobacco having a low nicotine content is lefss injurious to health than ordi- nary tobacco or. tobacco with high nicotine content.