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and the amount of work possible on these days 

 was compared with that done at the same hours 

 on other days, when no tobacco was used. A 

 loss of strength was likewise observed when a cigar 

 was smoked before one of several observations of 

 a day. The result was unexpected to the subject, 

 who, though aware of the depressing effects of 

 large doses of tobacco, thought he could do better 

 mental work when smoking, and supposed that 

 moderate smoking tended to excite rather than 

 depress both mental and muscular activity." 



Rev. E. O. Pigott, of England, one of the Cam- 

 bridge University eight in 1864 : "I am perfectly 

 convinced that smoking greatly decreases the power 

 of endurance needful in sustaining physical effort." 



Extracts from a paper by Dr. Jay W. Seaver, 

 college physician and professor of athletics at 

 Yale : " A record of the users of tobacco has been 

 kept at Yale for the past eight years, for the main 

 purpose of determining the number of men who 

 began the habit while in colloge." 



Omitting certain statistics, the extracts are con- 

 tinued : " If this growth be expressed in the form 

 of percentage, it will be seen that in weight the 

 non-users increased 10.4 per cent, more than the 

 regular users, and 6.Q per cent, more than the 

 occasional users. In the growth of height the 

 non-user increased 24 per cent, more than the 

 habitual user. In growth of chest girth, the non- 

 user has an advantage over the regular user of 22 



