TOBACCO, CHOLERA, AND THEIR CONTAGIONS.
By Geo. M. Powell
THE eminent John Lizars says: “During the prevalence of cholera, I have had repeated opportunities of observing that individuals addicted to the use of tobacco are more disposed to attacks of that disease, and generally in its most malignant and fatal form.” Dr. Willard Parker, long at the head of the medical profession in New York City, said: “All who smoke or chew are more apt to die in epidemics than other people.” Dr. O. M. Stone, of Boston, said: “The idea that tobacco prevents disease is an error. A tobacco user's chances of recovery from any malignant disease are lessened fifty per cent.” Capt. G. B. Pettingill, who for many years commanded vessels trading between Boston and Cuba, Mexico and South America, said: “Very few tobacco users recover from yellow fever. I once lost half my crew with it in Havana. Every man who died used tobacco, and every one who lived did not use it.” Dr. Harris, of New York City Dispensary, where more diseases are treated than in any other place in America, said: “It is scarcely possible to cure a syphilitic sore, or unite a fractured bone in a devoted smoker.” The London Lancet says: “No smoker can be a well man.”—Geo. M. Powell, in National Temperance Advocate.