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General Effects of Tobacco on the System. Tobacco 

 usually diminishes the natural appetite for food and inter- 

 feres with digestion. It often affects the stomach and 

 induces a craving for alcoholic drink. The eyes are fre- 

 quently affected. Smoking often irritates the mouth and 

 throat sufficiently to make the voice husky. The heart 

 also is very frequently affected, the beat becoming un- 

 steady. The muscles are in some cases weakened and 

 affected by trembling. 



Cigarette Smoking. It seems to be clearly proved 

 that cigarette smoking is very injurious, especially to boys. 

 And if men smoke cigars, the example is set for the boys 

 to smoke cigarettes. Some of the cigarettes are said to 

 be steeped in preparations of opium, so that the use of 

 cigarettes is often subjecting the user, not only to the 

 tyranny of tobacco, but that of opium as well. 



Perhaps Robinson Crusoe might have been excused for 

 using tobacco, having no one to save money for, no unfor- 

 tunates to aid, no children to educate, no one to whom he 

 might set a bad example, no one whose breath of air he 

 could contaminate, no one to smell his breath, no one to 

 see the offensive results. But a man, living in the society 

 of so many to whom this habit, in all its features, is so 

 disgusting and in every way offensive, ought seriously to 

 consider whether he is doing right in continuing such a 

 practice. 



Many boys seem to think it is manly ; they wish, to do 

 as others do. It is not manly to imitate any one. Do 

 nothing simply because some one else does it. To do this 

 is to be a slave, to be led. And one bad feature of the 

 tobacco habit is that one makes himself a slave to the 

 weed. For, like other narcotics, it has a powerful in- 



