I08 TOBACCO AND ITS EFFECTS. 



mission, but deny that it is probable. Twenty per cent 

 think that nothing of the sort is possible, while the re- 

 mainder either answer very indefinitely or not at all. 



" I am acquainted with two brothers, both of whom 

 have been inordinate lovers of tobacco from childhood, 

 doubtless owing to transmission of the habit from both 

 grandparents." 



" As the child is, as a rule, the reflex of the parents, 

 both mentally and physically, he will partake more or less 

 of the defects of their constitutions ; in other words, his 

 constitution will contain the seeds, which in time will 

 surely develop, of faults mental and physical." 



'' I am firmly of opinion that tobacco, as well as alco- 

 hohc stimulants, creates diseased conditions, which will 

 manifest themselves in the second generation." 



" I have noticed what I thought a transmitted tendency 

 in the children of a few families, some of whom were 

 lovers of tobacco from a very early age. These children, 

 in one instance, were born after the father became an 

 habitual user of tobacco, while their brothers and sisters, 

 born before that time, had a perfect loathing for it. Such 

 a fact seems to me very significant." 



^lestion lo. " Have you observed whether or not 

 the rapidly extending use of tobacco during recent years 

 has been efficient in producing disease of any specific 

 kind, especially in the nervous, respiratory, or digestive 

 systems?" 



Forty-five per cent of the replies to this question were 

 in the affirmative, twenty-five per cent in the negative, and 

 the remainder, thirty per cent, of the eorresiDondents made 

 no response. 



" Tobacco is undoubtedly one chief cause of the rapid 



