34 TOBACCO. 



smokes tobacco before the bodily powers are de- 

 veloped ever makes a strong, vigorous man." 



Prof. Richard McSherry, president of the Balti- 

 more Academy of Medicine : f? The effect of to- 

 bacco on schoolboys is so marked as not to be 

 open for discussion. 



From " Lessons on the Human Body : n w To- 

 bacco, like alcohol, and for nearly the same rea- 

 sons, injures the brain, deranges the entire nervous 

 system, spoils the appetite for wholesome food, 

 lowers the life forces, injures the lungs and heart, 

 and depresses the spirits. When indulged in by 

 young persons, it saps the foundation of health and 

 dwarfs the body and mind." 



Dr. B. W. Richardson : ?f The effects of this agent, 

 often severe even on those who have attained to 

 manhood, are specially injurious to the young. In 

 these the habit of smoking causes impairment of 

 growth, premature manhood, and physical pros- 

 tration." 



A superintendent of education in Vermont gives 

 the case of a boy of fourteen who fell unaccounta- 

 bly behind his class. The incapacity thus evinced 

 in one naturally bright was a puzzle to his teachers. 

 At last he sickened and died, when it was found 

 that he was killed by tobacco, to which he was in 

 the habit of helping himself privately from his 

 fathers store. 



At an examination for admission to the Free 

 College of Xew York, out of nine hundred girls, 

 six hundred and sixty, or seventy-one per cent. 



