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of life result in neglect of muscular exercise and improperly 

 directed nervous activity. As this neglect begins to tell on 

 general health it is found that the unfavorable effects of 

 tobacco become more pronounced. 



Especially to be condemned is its use by those who have 

 not attained their full growth. During youth nothing should 

 be allowed to interfere with the best development of the 

 heart and nervous system, and the use of tobacco endangers 

 the proper development of both of these most important 

 parts of the human mechanism. It can hardly be doubted 

 that many a young man has failed to make the most out of 

 life because the habit contracted in youth has struck in this 

 way at the foundations upon which he had subsequently 

 to build. 



