p. 4 | The Injurious Effects of Tobacco

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Jul 10, 1916

The Injurious Effects of Tobacco

TOBACCO is the most subtle poison known to chemists, except the deadly prussic acid.—M. Orfila, professor of medical jurisprudence and toxicology in the Faculty of Medicine in Paris in 1919.

Tobacco is ruinous in our schools and colleges, dwarfing body and mind.—Dr. Willard Parker.

I shall not hesitate to pronounce tobacco in young men to be evil, and only evil, physically, mentally, and morally.—Edward Hitchcock, of Amherst College.

The use of intoxicating liquor by men, and the use of cigarettes by boys, is creating a race of feeble-minded, unhealthy, and valueless citizens.—John Wanamaker.

We might as well go to the insane asylum for our men as to employ cigarette smokers.—The late E. H. Harriman, railroad magnate.

Cigarettes are ruining our children, endangering their lives, dwarfing their intellects, and making them criminals, fast. The boys who use them seem to lose all sense of right, decency, and righteousness.—Judge Crane, of New York City.

Cigarette smoking in the case of boys partly paralyzes the nerve cells at the base of the brain, and this interferes with the breathing and heart action. The end organs of the motor nerves lose their excitability, next the trunks of the nerves, and then the spinal cord. . . . The power of fine coordination is decidedly lost.—Prof. Sims Woodhead of Cambridge University.

The use of cigarettes affects the nervous system, weakens the will-power, and destroys the ability of the boy to resist temptation; and because of this he easily falls a victim of those habits which not only destroy the mind and soul, but irresistibly lead him into a violation of the laws of the state.