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ate smoker is incapable to level his musket with 

 precision and without shaking his hand, so as to 

 take steady aim. I recall instances of nervous 

 trepidation which rendered many a brave man use- 

 less as a marksman or musketeer." 



Corroborating this statement is a quotation from 

 Mr. O' Flaherty, who says that "he has known 

 men who, previous to their using tobacco, could 

 send a bullet through the target at eight hundred 

 yards' distance ; but who, after they had become 

 smokers and chewers, became so nervous that they 

 could scarcely send one into a hay-stack at a hun- 

 dred yards' distance." 



During our civil war, a large number of the 

 diseases in the soldiers' hospitals were attributed, 

 in a great degree, to the inordinate use of this 

 drug, which was often sent to them through the 

 mistaken kindness and sympathy of distant friends. 

 And many a man is now a miserable slave to the 

 tyrant, who took his first lessons in that same war. 



SHATTERED NERVES ; INSANITY. 



There are eminent physicians to whom almost 

 every day brings fresh confirmation of the fact 

 that nervous and brain diseases are not infre- 

 quently caused by the tobacco habit. 



Prof. Kirke, in Nerves and Narcotics: " You see 

 a man weary, and yet restless. By means of the 

 narcotic this nervous irritation is subdued. The 

 supply of vital force from the organic centres to 

 the motor nerves is so much lessened that the irri- 



