THE ABNORMAL MAN. 



Morphine, 

 Opium and 

 Nicotine. 



Delirium 

 Tremens. 



Tobacco 

 Restricts the 

 Mind. 



of other narcotics. Morphine, opium, and nico- 

 tine are not less injurious than alcohol. Tobacco 

 is fast becoming the rival of King Alcohol, both 

 as an expensive luxury and as a demoralizing 

 power. The consumption of tobacco per capita 

 has more than doubled within a quarter of a cen- 

 tury, while the reports from cigar manufacturers 

 and tobacco dealers indicate the deplorable fact 

 that its consumption, especially in the form of 

 cigars and cigarettes, has increased faster during 

 the last five years than in any previous period. 



Much of the poverty, physical degeneracy, men- 

 tal inferiority, vice and crime attributed to alcohol 

 is in part due to the effects of tobacco. Delirium 

 tremens rarely if ever occurs in alcoholics who do 

 not use tobacco; doubtless the same is true of 

 many other morbid conditions observable among 

 habitual drinkers. 



When used by the young, tobacco stunts the 

 growth, paralyzes the nerve centers, tends to 

 weaken the intellect and blunt the moral senti- 

 ments. Seldom, if ever, has a student graduated 

 with high honor from a reputable college who 

 began using it in early life. 



The United States Military Academy at West 

 Point and the Naval Academy at Annapolis pro- 

 hibited the use of tobacco by their students "be- 

 cause repeated experiments proved that it weak- 

 ened or deadened the mental powers." 



In order to maintain the standard of her stand- 

 ing army Germany found it necessary to prohibit 

 the use of tobacco by youths because very few of 

 those who began its use in early life ever devel- 

 oped to where they could pass a military exami- 

 nation. 



