Brain Poisoned by Tobacco

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 23, 1879

Brain Poisoned by Tobacco.

A PECULIAR case of mental hallucination has just appeared in Battle Creek, Mich., in the person of a young man about 18 or 20 years old. He is a cigar-maker by trade, and has been in the habit of smoking from 10 to 30 "green" cigars daily. He has not drank liquor sufficient to produce delirium, and yet he is a raving lunatic, and suffers all the horrible phantasmagoria that pertain to the fully developed tremens. He has worked in and used tobacco ever since early boyhood. Of late years he had used it extensively, principally in strong cigars; and it is supposed that the nicotine has so poisoned and shattered his mind as to partly paralyze it, thus producing the disorder. He has been taken to the insane asylum at Kalamazoo for treatment.