

THE RESPIRATION 87 



that the smoker is not content simply to absorb the nicotine 

 through the mucous membrane of the mouth ; he draws it 

 into the lungs. The very mildness of the smoke leads to 

 inhalation. Hence, as the surface of the lungs is a hundred 

 times greater than the surface of the mouth, and its lining 

 much thinner, cigarette smoking is far more injurious than 

 cigar smoking. 



The poison accumulates in the bowl of a pipe ; hence an old pipe 

 is very injurious. The irritation of tobacco smoke often sets up a 

 chronic dry catarrh 

 of the air passages ; 

 rarely it causes cancer 

 of lips or tongue. Sir 

 Henry Thompson 

 says : " The only per- 

 sons who enjoy smok- 

 ing and find it tran- 

 quillizing at times are 

 those who smoke in 

 great moderation. 

 Men who are rarely 

 seen without a cigar 

 between the lips, have 

 long ceased to enjoy 

 smoking. They are 

 confirmed in a habit, 

 and are merely miser- 

 able when the cigar is 

 absent." They do not 

 smoke for pleasure, 

 but to escape misery 

 which wiser men 

 escape by avoiding 

 tobacco altogether. 



FIG. 85. FIG. 86. 



FIG. 85. FLATTENED CHEST and waist organs 

 sunken from wearing tight clothing since the age of 

 fourteen. Such women often walk with bodies 

 bent forward to hide the prominent abdomen. 



FIG. 86. A NATURAL WOMAN. 



PRACTICAL QUES- 

 TIONS. 1. State 



how in the case of a person with round shoulders a gradual remolding 

 of cartilages (which ones ?), the strengthening of the muscles (which 

 ones ?), and the practice of deep breathing may each contribute toward 



