p. 43 | Tobacco Chewing and Eye Troubles

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 21, 1892

Tobacco Chewing and Eye Troubles

Dr. Francis Dowling, of Cincinnati, O., after a year of assiduous labor, has prepared a report on the effects on the eyes of tobacco chewing. He made a study of 3,000 persons employed in the various tobacco manufactories of that city, and embodies with the results in their cases those of studies made by the doctors in Paris and Berlin. Of the 3,000 under observation a close study was made of 1,500, all males, selected at random. He found that ninety-five per cent. suffered with visional troubles, and nearly as many exhibited muscular deterioration. It was also demonstrated that tobacco chewing is far more hurtful than smoking.