42 THE TOBACCO NUISANCE. 



depresses the vital ])0\vers, causes tlie Hiii1)s to ticni1»](>, aiul 

 \veakeiis and otherwise disorders the heart." Professor Thwing 

 says : '' The sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing all suffer from 

 tlu! benumbing influence of this poison. The evidence is over- 

 whelming in reference to defective vision. We, like (Germany, 

 are coming to bo 'a spectacled nation, because a nation of 

 smokers.' " • 



" Tobacco users most look to their eyes," says an American 

 Medical journal. " Proofs are accumulating that blindness by 

 atrophy of the optic nerve, induced l)y smoking, is of frequent 

 occurrence," The testimony of Dr. Dickinson, as given in the 

 Central Christian Advocate, is equally conclusive. " My obser- 

 vation of eye dieases, extending through a period of more than 

 twenty-five years, has convinced me that, besides the pernicious 

 effects of tobacco in other respects, greatly impaired vision, 

 and not infrequently blindness has been occasioned by the use 

 of this narcotic poison. You may deny the statement made. 

 In the presence of the sun you may close your eyes to the light 

 and deny that it shines, but this does not alter the fact — it 

 shines nevertheless. So though denying thesc^ they are never- 

 theless true." That it disorders the stomach and induces 

 dyspepsia is beyond question. "Physicians meet with thou- 

 sands of cases of dyspepsia connected with the use of Tobacco 

 in some one of its forms." " It weakens the organs of diges- 

 tion iind as.siiuilation, and at length plunges into all the 

 accumulated horrors of dyspepsia." " Fi'om the sympathy 

 subsisting between the olfactories and the nei'ves of the stomach, 

 the use of snuff has, in some instances, produced dyspepsia." 



Cancers are well known to result from smoking, and when 

 in th(> mouth are sjenorallv traceable to this cause. A Medical 

 iouinal i>ives the account of one hundred and twentv-seven 

 cases of cancer in the li|)S. nearly the whole of which had b3eu 

 occasioned by the use of Tobacco. With the sad history of the 

 late Cileneral Orant you are, my friend, familiar. He who had 

 faced death upon the battle-field and laid his country under an 



