86 TOBACCO. 



Napoleon I., and who was long a member of 

 the Austrian Parliament, has become insane from 

 his excessive use of tobacco. 



An Ohio friend tells me of a young man in 

 business whose excessive smoking and chewing 

 so broke him down mentally and morally that it 

 was necessary to dismiss him from the firm of 

 of which he was a member. In the course of a 

 year, about eight thousand dollars, awarded him 

 as his share of the profits, were all squandered. 

 The father, from fear of personal violence, was 

 compelled to place him in an insane asylum. 

 His single chance for recovery was entire absti- 

 nence ; yet the father, in his blind fondness, with 

 his own hand supplied him with cigars, and the 

 doctors did not interfere ! 



A young man promised his father that he would 

 abstain from smoking till he was twenty-one. 

 That time had no sooner arrived than he set 

 himself to learn, and though nature made a fierce 

 revolt, and he suffered terribly in the process, he 

 persevered till he succeeded, when his health 

 broke down and he became a confirmed epileptic. 

 Well does Lord Bacon say : — "To smoke is a 

 secret delight, serving to steal away men's brains," 

 and another : " Tobacco carries but a thin edge of 

 enjoyment ahead, and a blunt edge of dull stupidity 

 and crackling sorrow and nervous derangement 

 behind." 



A member of the Paris Academy of Medicine : 

 w Statistics show that in exact proportion with the 



