TOBACCO LEAVES 



TOBACCO AND THE HEART 



THE New Orleans Times-Democrat gives 

 the following interesting interview on the 

 above subject: "I don't like to upset a 

 cherished tradition," said a doctor who is 

 himself a devotee of the weed, " but the 

 talk one hears of nicotine saturating the 

 system of smokers is mostly rot. Nicotine 

 is a deadly poison. One drop of it will 

 make a good-sized mastiff turn up his toes, 

 if injected subcutaneously, and it would 

 take precious little of it to kill a man. 

 The truth is that very little is absorbed, 

 even by the most confirmed smokers. Now 

 and then you read of men who die from 

 excessive tobacco using, and are found on 

 autopsy to be literally reeking with nico- 

 tine. All rubbish. Nothing of the kind 

 ever happened. 



" Again, it's a favourite experiment to 

 blow smoke through a handkerchief, and 



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