Bad for Tobacco | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Apr 22, 1875

Bad for Tobacco.

THE trembling which is one of the usual symptoms of acute, is also a common result of chronic, nicotism. A very distinguished Parisian physician had hands that shook so much that he could not write. Whenever he remained without tobacco for any length of time these tremblings disappeared. Another case mentioned by Blatin is noteworthy. A man of forty-five years consulted him respecting violent and numerous attacks of vertigo. When he felt one of these approaching, he was obliged to lie down wherever he might be, to avoid falling. In the country, where he had plenty of exercise, they were less frequent than in the town, where his occupation was sedentary. Cessation from tobacco quickly restored him. A physician of fifty-two was afflicted with similar disagreeable symptoms, and was also cured by abstinence. Habit had become so strong that he could not resist at times the temptation to slight indulgence. Finding that these returns to tobacco were immediately followed by his old, painful attacks, he renounced it forever.

—Popular Science Monthly.