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"That the nervous system which was blunted 

 by nicotine is not so keen and sharp for mental 

 work as it otherwise would be, is abundantly estab- 

 lished. The habitual use of tobacco is weighted 

 in the intellectual race. It accelerates the respir- 

 ation, produces morbid changes in the blood-cor- 

 puscles, disturbs digestion, occasions defective 

 nutrition, lessens the power of the heart, impairs 

 nervous energy, not only in the special nerves of 

 seeing, hearing, smelling, and touching, but also 

 in the ordinary nerves both of sensation and of 

 motion, inducing in some instances partial or com- 

 plete paralysis, and also insanity. 



"The strongest indictment, however, against 

 tobacco is that it makes one a slave. A man of 

 forty-five came to me one day with serious disease 

 of the heart. After an examination I asked, f Why 

 don't you leave off smoking?' 'Oh, I wish I 

 could.' 'Do you mean to say that you really 

 cannot do it ? ' f That is just what I mean ; I am 

 a slave, bound hand and foot. I could have broken 

 away once. I cannot now.' And he went to an 

 untimely grave. What a slavery is that which 

 holds a man to the very doors of the sepulchre and 

 will not let him £0 till the orrave closes over him ! " 



Dr. J. H. Kellogg, Sanitarium at Battle Creek, 

 Michigan, September 8, 1892: "In my opinion 

 the tobacco habit is the worst vice of civilization." 



Bishop Coxe, of Western New York, April, 

 1892: "I feel strongly on the subject and am 



