56 TOBACCO. 



moves sluggishly, and as it stagnates in delicate 

 organs, foundation is laid for every form of 

 disease, while at the same time the poison of the 

 drug is diffused through every tissue of the living 

 frame, benumbing and impairing all the powers of 

 life, so that the system is at once more liable to 

 disease and less able to endure its consequences 

 and resist its power." 



Dr. Logee : " Being a narcotic stimulant it 

 breaks down the nervous system, raising the user 

 above his natural level, only, by inevitable reac- 

 tion, to depress him below it." 



Dr. B. W. Richardson : n The extreme symptoms 

 induced by tobacco smoke are intensely severe, 

 and the idea that tobacco is a narcotic like opium 

 or chloroform is entirely disproved by them. Its 

 action is as an irritant upon the motor parts of 

 the nervous system, not as a narcotic upon the sen- 

 sational." 



Dr. Marshal] Hall : ff The smoker cannot escape 

 the poison of tobacco. It gets into his blood, 

 travels the whole round of his system, interferes 

 with the heart's action and the general circulation, 

 and affects every organ and fibre of the frame." 



Dr. J. C. Jackson: "I have long entertained 

 the opinion that tobacco is really more deleterious 

 in its effects than are alcoholic drinks. I have 

 settled mj'self thoroughly in the conviction that no 

 habit of the American people is so destructive to 

 their physical vigor, and their moral character." 



11 We are accused of killing patients with calo- 



