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The Dangers of Tobacco

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 23, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 37.

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The Dangers of Tobacco

THE use of tobacco shortens life. Its direct tendency is to defile, emaciate, enfeeble, and undermine the whole man. Dr. Shaw specifies over eighty diseases which may be traced to this as a cause. German physicians, also, state that of the deaths in Germany of young men from the age of eighteen to twenty-five, more than half are from tobacco. Tobacco is a deceiver. “I did not realize its power,” said a doctor of divinity, “till I gave it up;” and thousands thus emancipated have confessed its subtle influence.—Sel.