If a man is cold, the tobacco deadens his nerves so that he does not
feel the cold and does not take pains to make himself warmer.

If a man is tired, or in trouble, tobacco will not really rest him or
help him out of his trouble.

It only puts his nerves to sleep and helps him think that he is not
tired, and that he does not need to overcome his troubles.

It puts his nerves to sleep very much as alcohol does, and helps him to
be contented with what ought not to content him.

A boy who smokes or chews tobacco, is not so good a scholar as if he did
not use the poison. He can not remember his lessons so well.

Usually, too, he is not so polite, nor so good a boy as he otherwise
would be.

REVIEW QUESTIONS.

1. How do the muscles know when to move?

2. What part of you is it that thinks?

3. What are the nerves?

4. Where is the spinal cord?

5. What message goes to the brain when you put
your finger on a hot stove?

6. What message comes back from the brain to the
finger?

7. What is meant by "As quick as thought"?

8. Name some of the muscles which work without
needing our thought.

9. What keeps them at work?

10. Why do not the nerve messages get mixed and
confused?

11. Why could you not feel, if you had no nerves?

12. State some ways in which the nerves give us
pain.

13. State some ways in which they give us
pleasure.

14. What part of us has the most work to do?

15. How must we keep the brain strong and well?

16. What does alcohol do to the nerves and brain?

17. Why does not a drunken man know what he is
about?

18. What causes most of the accidents we read of?

19. Why could not the man who had been drinking
tell the difference between a railroad track and a
place of safety?

20. How does the frequent drinking of a little
liquor affect the body?

21. How does sickness affect people who often
drink these liquors?

22. When a man is taken to the hospital, what
questions does the doctor ask?

23. What depends upon his answers?

24. Why do many men use tobacco?

25. How does it make them feel better?