Thirdly, there is the widespread error of 

 ascribing the evils of the abuses of tobacco to 

 the use of tobacco. This matter of the use and 

 abuse of tobacco cannot be put too clearly. 

 Most medical investigators have based their 

 results clearly on the excessive use of tobacco. 

 It is a very rare thing to find a medical investi- 

 gator drawing attention to any harmful results 

 following the moderate use of tobacco, and it 

 appears a just statement to make that the 

 majority of men use tobacco in moderation. It 

 appears to be true that excessive smoking is 

 harmful and is capable of producing deleterious 

 effects on the respiratory and nervous systems 

 in man, but ifc has never been scientifically 

 proved that the moderate use of tobacco has any 

 particularly harmful effects. Moreover, it is 

 well-known to the medical profession and so 

 stated constantly that in many cases where the 

 use of tobacco has produced bad effects on the 

 eye, nerves, etc., its use is contra-indicated, ow- 

 ing to the condition of the subject due to other 

 causes and that such results would not occur 

 in a normally healthy subject. Therefore, be- 

 cause tobacco when used excessively or when 

 used by persons who are not constitutionally 

 fitted for it, produces bad effects, it is not 

 logical to argue, as many opponents of tobacco 



176 



