Boys Using Tobacco by H. F. Phelps

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 10, 1866

Boys Using Tobacco.

By H. F. Phelps

THE following short article I copy from the Rural American. If it is worthy, please publish.

H. F. PHELPS.

"A strong, sensible writer says a good sharp thing, and a true one, too, for boys who use tobacco. It induces a dangerous precocity. It tends to a softening and weakening of the bones, and it greatly injures the brain, the spinal marrow and the whole nervous fluid.

A boy who smokes early, and frequently, or in any way uses large quantities of tobacco, is never known to make a man of much energy, and generally lacks muscular and physical, as well as mental power. We would particularly warn boys who want to be anything in the world, to shun tobacco as the most baneful poison. It injures the teeth. It produces an unhealthy state of the throat and lungs, hurts the stomach, and blasts the brain and nerves."