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workshops are well arranged and ventilated ; but during 

 their ten hours of work the operatives are exposed to an 

 atmosphere charged with the dust of tobacco and the vapor 

 of nicotine. This is found to be especially noxious to young 

 workers recently entering, or to those convalescent from 

 sickness. Thus the majority of deaths among the children 

 and work-girls in the first month is attributed to narcotic 

 poisoning. 



" Of a hundred boys, from twelve to sixteen, who entered 

 the works, seventy-two fell sick in the first six months. 

 Their sickness lasted from two to t\venty-eight days, and 

 consisted especially in congestion of the brain, different 

 nervous affections, pains in the region of the heart, palpi- 

 tation, pallor, inflammation of the stomach, intestines, and 

 lining membrane of the eyelids, with fever, lassitude, cold 

 sweats, want of appetite and sleeplessness." 



Dr. B. W. Richardson, F. R. S., says "that smoking 

 produces disturbances in the blood, causing undue fluidity 

 and change in the red corpuscles ; in the stomach, giving 

 rise to debility, nausea, and sickness ; on the heart, caus- 

 ing debihty of the organ and irregular action ; on the 

 organs of sense, causing confusion of vision, bright lines, 

 luminous specks, and long retention of images on the 

 retina ; with analogous symptoms in the ear, such as ina- 

 bility to sharply define sounds, and the annoyance of a 

 sharp ringing sound, like a whistle or a bell ; on the mu- 

 cous membrane of the mouth, causing enlargement and 

 soreness of the tonsils, — 'smoker's sore-throat,' — red- 

 ness, dryness, and occasional peeling off of the membrane, 

 and either unnatural fineness and contraction, or spongi- 

 ness of the gums." 



Dr. Jolly (Association Frangaise contre I'Abus du Tabac) 



