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make smoke-houses of their heads, as if the end and aim of life with 

 them was to pickle their tongues in smoke; and their whole bodies 

 are so saturated and polluted with the vile stuff that their neighbors' 

 nostrils announce their coming afar off. Is it to be wondered at 

 that so many of our young men, following in the steps of their 

 illustrious fathers, learn to use tobacco and cultivate a taste for 

 stimulants which at last becomes a direful disease and then finally 

 die lunatics or drunkards? 



The smoking of a single cigar, and especially by those not long 

 habituated to its use, will increase the pulse from ten to fifteen 

 beats. The results of both chewing and smoking often are depression 

 of spirits, irritability, peevishness, loss of memory, dullness of per- 

 ception and despondency, as a natural result of over-excitement. The 

 teachers in our institution of learning not infrequently observe 

 that young men who use tobacco, as a general rule, are much more 

 dull and stupid than those who do not ; and they, as well as eminent 

 physicians, have expressed the opinion that tobacco to-day is doing 

 almost as great a physical injury to the present generation as alco- 

 hol. 



Sudden Death Dr. Twitchell states that nearly all the 

 cases of sudden death occurring during sleep, which came under 

 his observation, were those of persons who had indulged largely in 

 the use of tobacco. And subsequently the correctness of his state- 

 ments was confirmed by investigations made by the Boston Society 

 of Medical Observation. 



Physical Effects The use of tobacco produces marked 

 alterations in the most expressive portions of the face. In conse- 

 quence of the constant use of the muscles surrounding the mouth 

 there is occasioned an irregular development of these parts, which 

 presents a coarser appearance when compared with the rest of the 

 features. The eye loses its natural fire and becomes dull and vacant, 

 and the skin assumes a sallow appearance 



Uncleanly To say that this habit, with many, is uncleanly 

 and even filthy, is only repeating what is expressed every day. The 

 linen, the mouth, the breath, and many times the room of its vic- 

 tim, indicate the effect it produces. 



Moral Effects The use of tobacco has a tendency to impair 

 the taste, so that simple fluid and simple diet are liable to become 

 insipid and unpalatable, and the natural resort is then to the 

 "flowing bowl." It also excites the various animal propensities 

 beyond their proper balance, and tends to debase the moral character 

 and make man more animal and less intellectual. 



Expensive Tobacco, in its different forms, costs the people 

 of the United States more than $30,000,000 annually, all of which 

 is far worse than if thrown away. It is not a natural food for man; 

 it will not sustain life, but is a poison, and all its tendencies, except 

 in rare cases, are to destroy life. Is it any wonder that we cry hard 

 times, when there are hundreds of millions of dollars annually 



