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charge of the slow-moving blood until the next cigarette is 

 smoked. Then it will jump into quick action again for a 

 few minutes. 



And this is why a smoker must often use fifty and sixty 

 cigarettes a day to keep his heart up to the mark. This is 

 why a healthy heart gets turned into a tobacco heart. This is 

 why the steady smoker often fails where he wishes to succeed. 

 And the fundamental reason for all this is the double charac- 

 ter of tobacco ; it is a stimulant and it is also a poison. The 

 smoker craves the stimulation ; in addition he receives the 

 poison of nicotine. 



To show the power of this poison, take the case of Dr. 

 Kellogg's frogs. He bought a cigarette, extracted the nico- 

 tine from it, and injected part of this harmless-looking, 

 colorless liquid into a full-grown frog. The small creature 

 died promptly. He took another good-sized, perfectly healthy 

 frog, injected the rest of the nicotine into it, and it too died 

 at once. 



Dr. Kellogg goes on to say that " one fourteenth of a drop 

 of nicotine will kill a frog in ten seconds, while one sixth of 

 a drop will kill a cat in fourteen seconds." 



Homer Leslie was eight months old. He was playing out 

 of doors, as Dr. Kellogg says, when he found a half-smoked 

 cigarette. He put it into his mouth, chewed it awhile, was 

 taken violently ill, and died within a few hours. The doctor 

 said it was the nicotine of the tobacco that killed him. 



If tobacco leaves could be robbed of their nicotine, smoking 

 would be a fairly harmless habit. But the two are inseparable. 

 When a man sets fire to his cigarette, the tobacco turns itself 

 to smoke and ashes, and while this happens the nicotine 

 turns into vapor. If, now, the man draws the smoke into his 

 lungs, the vaporized nicotine goes with it. But after reaching 



