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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 6, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 42.

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Nicotine.

NICOTINE is a powerful vegetable poison, so powerful that when made volatile by heat the vapor is so oppressive as to occasion difficulty in breathing. Animals have been put to death in the interests of science by the application of two or three drops to their tongues. Persons have been intentionally murdered by this substance, and yet thousands are ignorantly or willfully undermining health by inhaling this poison in the fumes of tobacco. The quantity is very slight each time, but it is cumulative, and after a while the smoker complains, "I am growing nervous." Later his constitution is ruined, and he is the victim of "the climate," or "business," of this or that disease, but the cigar or more villainous cigarette is not mentioned or thought of with blame.—The Examiner.