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smoking injures the whole organism, puts a man's stomach 

 and whole frame out of order ; but it acts mainly, as all 

 other poisons do, on the nervous system. Not only is the 

 physical effect most debilitating; it tends, in plain lan- 

 guage, to paralysis ; for the cases are not a few in which 

 there is not only an approach to paralysis in the trembling 

 of the hand, but in the lower extremities, from no cause 

 on earth but inveterate smoking. If you get a medical 

 opinion in favor of a pipe, it is the opinion of the man 

 who indulges in it. An unbiased and unprejudiced opin- 

 ion in favor of tobacco is yet to come. The effects of 

 narcotics, mental and bodily, I can fairly testify are nothing 

 but evil. I stand in a position of giving an experienced, 

 as well as an impartial observation. I am standing on 

 unassailable ground, when I say that every man, woman, 

 and child who uses tobacco unnecessarily, to any appreci- 

 able extent, is thereby injuring himself, or herself, morally, 

 mentally, and physically, more or less." 



Sir Benjamin Brodie, F. R. S., from the result of ex- 

 periments upon animals, tells us that the poison acts by 

 destroying the functions of the brain. Many observers 

 on the Continent have noticed the inferior attainments of 

 students who smoke. Thus, Dr. Bertillon — the most 

 eminent writer of the day on medical statistics — ^ found in 

 1855, that, of the pupils then at the Polytechnic School 

 of Paris, one hundred and eight smoked and fifty-two 

 did not smoke. The non-smokers stood higher, intel- 

 lectually, than the smokers. He furthermore found that 

 the mean rank of the smokers, as compared with the non- 

 smokers, deteriorated, from their entering to their leaving 

 the school. 



The " British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review," 



