that “tobacco exercises a soothing influence 
when the nervous system is in anyway irritable; 
it tends to calm and continuous thinking.” 
Fullerton says, “It gives a composure and feel- 
ing of well-being which are beneficial to mind 
and body.” Of these facts there can be no 
doubt because they are matters of common daily 
observation and experience. Most smokers find 
a solace and quieting influence from their eve- 
ning smoke after the worries of a troublesome 
day which no other agent can give them. The 
effect produced may be partly psychological 
but that does not matter. Indeed the strenu- 
ousnéss of life in the age in which we live seems 
to demand such a help and nothing appears to 
supply the want so efficiently, so pleasantly, 
and with less harm, than a quiet smoke. It puts 
the smoker at peace with himself and at peace 
with others. Bush found in his investigations 
on the mental effects of tobacco on college stu- 
dents that there was a temporary loss of ten 
per cent in mental efficiency in certain faculties 
of the mind. This is probably true enough 
though his results are not quite conclusive. On 
the other hand many men find that they can 
think more clearly and more consecutively when 
helped by a smoke. Indeed they smoke when 
they have a knotty problem to solve. The 
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