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like nicotine, produced contraction of the pupil, difficult 

 respiration, general convulsions, and death ; and, upon 

 post morte77i examination, the respiratory passages and 

 liings were found congested. They do not act as rapidly 

 as nicotine. Those volatile at a low temperature were 

 more active than those which were only volatile at a high 

 temperature, which explains the fact that more tobacco 

 can be smoked in the form of cigars than in a pipe. 



" The alkaloids are soluble in the mucus of the mouth 

 and air-passages ; and thus smoke condensed and min- 

 gled with water is easily taken into the blood. Hence, 

 when cigars or pipes are smoked, even out-of-doors, a 

 notable quantity of poison is taken into the system. But, 

 when smoking takes place in a small room, the air taken 

 into the lungs also adds its poison to the fluids of the air- 

 passages ; and persons who remain in smoking-rooms, 

 even if not themselves smoking, cannot escape a certain 

 amount of poisoning. Women who wait in public bar- 

 rooms and smoking-saloons, though not themselves smok- 

 ing, cannot avoid the poisoning caused by inhaling smoke 

 continually. Surely gallantry, if not common honesty, 

 should suggest the practical inference from this fact." 



General Effects of the use of Tobacco. 



The results of the use of the weed, armed as all 

 chemists agree with some of the most powerful and poi- 

 sonous agents known to the vegetable world, have been 

 set down in all medical literature in fearful array. But in 

 vain has been the warning. The habit of using tobacco, 

 in some form, becomes even stronger in its enslaving 

 power than that of the indulgence in spirituous liquors, to 



