44 THE TOBACCO NUISA^'CE. 



is oalL-uliitcd to iiinr its efricii'iicv, lessen its usefulness, or 

 sliortf'U its career? 



Ihit llO^\'ever serious the efTeets of this liahit ai'o upon the 

 ]»arties ;i(l(lieteil thereto, they i\ru not confmei] to thenisc^lves. 

 Othei's Kre more or less injured thereby, and more es[>ecia1ly 

 the wife! aiid uiother, •' It is uudouhtedly tiMie," s;iys ])i-. 

 King, " tliat sleepiuj^i; v>'itli a person \\ho uses Tol)aeco freely 

 often has a }irejudii'ial elleet upon on(; who does not. The 

 poisonous oils of Tohaeco * * * takc;n into the system, 

 after going the rounds of the circulation, jiass out through th'? 

 lungs, anj.1, iheiefore, it is ])lain that anyone who sleeps with 

 such a peison must necessarily he inhaling the |)oison second- 

 liand all night. This is illusti'atcd in the following instaiu-es : 

 The young wif(! of a gi'e.i.t smoker grow pale, lost her api)etito, 

 l»ec;ii'.ie affected w ith }»:ilpitation of tlu* heart, trembling of the 

 lindis, and a death-iilct^ sinking at the |i)!t of the stomach ; her 

 sleep was interrupted with stai'tling pains and frightful dreams ; 

 she hecame nervous v.ith symptoms of hystei'ia. At first her 

 physician was iK)t aide to account for this medley of distressing 

 atlections, ])ut at length it occurred to him that they resembled 

 the effects of Tobacco ; ho communicated his suspicions to the 

 husband, wdio iuniicdiately throw away the cigar, and had the 

 satisfaction of soon seeing his wife recover without the aid of 

 medicine. '" Do you see that portly, jocose man yonder smoking 

 like a volcano? — smoking don't kill him." The reply was: 

 *' Look at his w ife, pale, shrivelled, trenndous, sinking into the 

 grave. So far as health is concerned, she luight about as well 

 have been wedded to a cask of Tobacco." 



But a still sadder phase of the subject is the influence of 

 Tobacco upon posterity. "If there is one act of criminality," 

 says a recent writer, "which nature stamps with especial 

 abhou'encc and puriishes with more terril)le and relentless 

 Re\-erity than :dl other-;, it is that of the [larent who, by mar- 

 ling his own organization and vitiating his own functions, 

 be<:|ueaths irremediable physical decrepitude." "The parent 



