Tobacco | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 22, 1857

Tobacco.

The London Lancet winds up an elaborate scientific examination of the effects of smoking tobacco, with the following conclusions, as the least unfavorable to the habit that can be granted:

"Let it be granted that there is such a thing as moderate smoking; it still remains that there is a long catalogue of frightful penalties attached to its abuse.

Smoking in early life is excess.

Smoking early in the day is excess.

As people are generally constituted, to smoke more than one or two pipes or cigars daily, is excess.

There are physiological indications, (such as profuse salivation, heart-burn, eructations, loss of appetite, especially in the morning, slowness or irregularity of the pulse, palpitation and precordial anxiety, giddiness, ringing in the ears, nausea, clammy perspiration, dimness of vision, tremors, &c.,) any of which occurring in the case of an individual, are criteria of excess."