60 TOBACCO. 



Chciuists assert tliat iiicotijio is tlio osscntijil in-incipio of 

 Tol)acco, and tliat nicotiiK- is a dcailly poison. Tho Dublin 

 University iMagazino, referring to tlio oi»inion of tlie medical 

 })rofession and eminent chemists, says: "Ho far there is no 

 controvei'sy. All are agreed as to the deadly nature of tho 

 (I'ohacco) plant. There is no dis[)ute as to the jwisonous action 

 of nicotine." " In a single cigar tlusre is suiiicient nicotine, if 

 administered pure, to kill two strong men." 



Physicians declare that two or thre(! times the amount of 

 medicine is reciuired to i)roduce the desired effect on a smoker 

 that would he necessary for a non-smoker, and that the latter 

 is less liable to contagious diseases and more likely to recover 

 from sickness or accident than the former. Thoujih not iren- 

 orally known, it is a fact that delirium tremens may be caused 

 by indulging excessively in narcotics. The death of that great 

 soldier, who three years ago was laid away in Blount Mc( Jregor, 

 lias made known to the public, the fact long known to medical 

 men, that lip and tongue cancers are caused ])y the use of 

 Tobacco. 



Oculists recognize a form of l^lindness known as Tobacco 

 amaurosis, which is often attended by actual atrojdiy of the 

 optic ner\(!S. Smoking frecpiently causes diseases of the car 

 and deafness. In smoking, especiidly cigarettes, the smoke is 

 often blown through the nose, and at the sana; time enters tlu; 

 eustachian tube. Tobacco-smoke is ladesn with minute parti- 

 cles, which gain access to the middle ear and irritate its liniu" 

 mendjrane. The continuance of such an irritation cives rise to 

 a chronic inllammation of tho middle ear. The partial loss of 

 taste and smell frecjuently observed in habitual smokers, (r 

 "the characteristic want of sensibility in the mucous mend)rane 

 of tho throat and nose of smokers who sulfer from chronic 

 angina, is duo to the beninnbing inlluence of Tobacco," assorts 

 Annal des iNlaladies de roreiilo. 



Tobacco is a poison similar to oj)ium and hasheesh, acknowl- 

 edged poisons, and makes one smaller in size, feebler in mind, 



