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from being in the room where he smoked ; and infant 

 deaths have occurred from no other cause. Says Dr. 

 Trail : " Many an infant has been killed outright 

 in its cradle by the tobacco-smoke with which a 

 thoughtless father filled an unventilated room." 



Not a few physicians regard much of the invalid- 

 ism, and also the positive ill-health of women, as 

 due to the poisoned atmosphere created around 

 them by the smoking members of their household. 



A gentleman in a Saratoga hotel said to a doc- 

 tor : " See that portly man yonder smoking like a 

 volcano; he stands the racket; smoking don't kill 

 him." " No, but he is killing his wife. See her 

 by his side, pale, shrivelled, tremulous, sinking 

 into the grave. So far as health is concerned, she 

 might about as well have wedded a cask of to- 

 bacco." 



A French journal reports the case of a farmer 

 who, with two companions, smoked one evening 

 in a chamber where a young man was asleep. 

 When, at midnight, the visitors withdrew, the 

 farmer found the youth insensible. A doctor was 

 summoned, but all efforts for his restoration were 

 fruitless. At the post mortem it was pronounced 

 that he had died of congestion of the brain, caused 

 by the respiration of tobacco-smoke during sleep. 



Tobacco commences its dreadful work in the 

 factories, the operatives inhaling its dust and ab- 

 sorbing its poison, so that, according to the doc- 

 tors, M it takes only four years to kill off the 

 worker." Dr. Kostral, physician to the royal 



