50 TOBACCO. 



quantities, by smoking, chewing, or snuffing, to- 

 bacco acts as a narcotic, and produces, for the 

 time, a calm feeling of mind and body, a state of 

 mild stupor and repose. This condition changes 

 to one of nervous restlessness and a general feeling" 

 of muscular weakness when its habitual use is 

 temporarily interrupted. The body and mind feel 

 in need of stimulation, and there is great danger 

 that a resort to alcohol may be had. The use of 

 alcohol is frequently induced by that of tobacco." 



Out of six hundred in the State prison at Au- 

 burn, Xew York, sent there for crimes committed 

 through strong drink, live hundred testified that 

 it was tobacco which led them to intemperance. 



Dr. Logee, of Oxford, Ohio, relates that he once 

 heard Mr. Trask offer fifty dollars to any intemper- 

 ate man who had not been a tobacco-user : and 

 that he himself has frequently made the offer of 

 fifty or a hundred dollars to any hard drinker who 

 would prove that he had never been a smoker or 

 a chewer. Xot a man, however, has ever claimed 

 the money. 



" Show me a drunkard that does n't use tobacco," 

 said Horace Greeley, K and I will show you a white 

 blackbird." 



George Trask pronounces the weed M Satan's 

 fuel for the drinking appetites." 



" The professors in the University and High 

 School at Ann Arbor, Michigan, who have had a 

 long experience among thousands of young men, 

 regard tobacco as having a worse effect than even 



