TOBACCO | AdventAI

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

TOBACCO.

SAYS Dr. L. Bremer, late physician to the St. Vincent's Institute for the Insane, of St. Louis, Mo.: "Without entering into preliminaries and details, I will state at the outset that I side with those who, looking at the injurious effects [of tobacco] collectively, consider it more harmful than alcohol, from the simple fact that its use is more general, its effects more gradual and less obvious, and that, from a moral point of view, it is in better standing." "Now, I do not believe that, with approaching mature years, I am one of those who eye through pessimistic spectacles the rising generation, but I simply repeat the everyday observation, which I have never seen doubted or contradicted, that there is an alarming increase of juvenile smokers; and, basing my assertion on the experience gathered in my private practice and at the St. Vincent's Institution in this city, I will broadly state that the boy who smokes at seven will drink whisky at fourteen, take to morphine at twenty or twenty-five, and wind up with cocaine and the rest of the narcotics, at thirty and later on."