110 TOBACCO : ITS HISTORY. 



years in England. Functional activity, prema- 

 turely exerted in any part of the animal system, 

 must necessarily be injurious : he whose organs 

 have been carefully restrained from premature 

 activity, will find them last the longer without 

 derangement. And tobaccp is not an aid required 

 by the young, whose mentality will develop itself 

 by its own internal force, in due time and in a 

 normal manner ; and w^hose passions, if they are 

 to subserve the great intents of nature, must not 

 anticipate their period of development, unless they 

 will be able to acquiesce in finding the end of 

 their enjoyments antedated. 



It follows also, from my hypothesis, that the 

 mild cigar is the safest form of using tobacco. 

 It has been said that " the cigar, especially if 

 smoked to the end, discharges directly into the 

 mouth of the smoker everything that is produced 

 by the burning." This is precisely what it does 

 not do. Its " discharge " is instantly re-dis- 

 charged from the mouth, to act on its proper 

 organ in influencing the brain — and even then 

 vastly modified by union with atmospheric air — 

 nay, possibly chemically changed, in some degree, 



