THE RESPIRATTOX 



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that the smoker is not content simply to absorb the nicotine 

 through the mucous membrane of the mouth ; he draws it 

 into the lungs. The very mildness of the smoke leads to 

 inhalation. Hence, as the surface of the lungs is a hundred 

 times greater than the surface of the mouth, and its lining 

 m itch thinner, cigarette smoking is far more injurious than 

 cigar smoking. 



The poison accumulates in the bowl of a pipe ; hence an old pipe 

 is very injurious. The irritation of tobacco smoke often sets up a 

 chronic dry catarrh 

 of the air passages ; 

 rarely it causes cancer 

 of lips or tongue. Sir 

 Henry Thompson 

 says : " The only per- 

 sons who enjoy smok- 

 ing and find it tran- 

 quillizing at times are 

 those who smoke in 

 great moderation. 

 Men who are rarely 

 seen without a cigar 

 between t4ie lips, have 

 long ceased to enjoy 

 smoking. They are 

 confirmed in a habit, 

 and are merely miser- 

 able when the cigar is 

 absent. 1 ' They do not 

 smoke for pleasure, 

 but to escape misery 

 which wiser men 

 escape by avoiding 

 tobacco altogether. 



Fig. 85. Fig. 



Fig. 85. — Flattened Chest and waist organs 

 sunken from wearing tight clothing since the age of 

 fourteen. Such women often walk with bodies 

 bent forward to hide the prominent abdomen. 



Fig. 86. — A Natural Woman. 



Practical Ques- 

 tions. — 1. State 



how in the case of a person with round shoulders a gradual remolding 

 of cartilages (which ones ?), the strengthening of the muscles (which 

 ones ?), and the practice of deep breathing may each contribute toward 



