p. 10 | TOBACCO AND DIGESTION

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 10, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 35.

TOBACCO AND DIGESTION.

EXPERIMENTS made on healthy persons, conducted for some days without smoking, and then the same number of days with the use of twenty-five cigarettes each day, give important results.

1. Tobacco increases the gastric juice, but diminishes its digestive quality. This produces indigestion and flatulency.

2. Tobacco injures the activity of the rennet properties of the gastric juice, and so delays or destroys digestion.

3. Both chewing and smoking interfere with the normal processes of the stomach. Hence indigestion and dyspepsia are common among tobacco users, and the frequent resort to tobacco for dyspepsia is contrary to science and experience.

The logic of science denounces tobacco in the treatment of deranged stomachs. In all cases where men wish to keep the healthy digestive organs in a normal condition, both chewing and smoking must be avoided. These facts would be heeded by thousands if they were not held in the slavery of a vicious appetite.—Selected.