p. 231 | Tobacco’s Harmful Effects

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 10, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 15.

Tobacco’s Harmful Effects

At an important convention of prison superintendents in New York a few days ago, Dr. T. C. McDonald, Superintendent of the State Asylum for Insane Criminals at Auburn, said experience, observation, and study led him to believe that tobacco was detrimental to the bodily, mental, and moral health of its prisoners. He said that tobacco ranked next to alcohol as a deteriorating and demoralizing agent when used to excess. Two years ago he withheld it from his patients, most of whom had long been addicted to its use. He was surprised to see how rapidly the clamor for it subsided. They had generally improved in their bodily health, and mental and moral tone. Yet how many slaves there are among our readers, out of prison, yet in chains.—N. Y. Advocate.