In the United States, intelligent physicians have estimated that twenty-six thousand die every year from the use of tobacco; and in Germany, where the streets, as well as the houses are literally befogged with tobacco smoke, the physicians have calculated that, of all the deaths that occur between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five, one-half originate in the waste of the constitution by smoking.
Tobacco exhausts and deranges the nervous powers, and produces a long train of nervous diseases. It is peculiarly calculated to produce diseases to which this age is liable; and especially those forms that go under the name of dyspepsia, with all their kindred train of evils. It also exerts a disastrous influence upon the mind, and frequently produces an enfeebling of the memory, a confusion of ideas, irritability of temper, want of energy, an unsteadiness of purpose, melancholy, and sometimes insanity. These are the ultimate effects of the use of tobacco; and though one may not perceive them in his own case, we are assured that the tendency of the drug is always towards disease.