ANOTHER EVIL OF TOBACCO-SMOKING

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 5, 1878

ANOTHER EVIL OF TOBACCO-SMOKING.

The Scientific American says that "vulcanized red rubber dental plates are turned black by tobacco smoke. The plates regularly color by degrees, after the fashion of meerschaum pipes. This will account for numerous cases of deteriorated plates, the owners of which have asked us to explain, and at the same time exhibits a new evil of the deleterious habit of tobacco-smoking."

If the poison of tobacco will produce such a chemical effect on vulcanized rubber, what must be its damaging effect upon such delicate tissues as the minute fibers of the nerves, the cells of the brain and spinal cord, and the corpuscles of the blood?