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| Tobacco like alcohol gives a temporary stimulus, and to slack off the |
| use of it, it will produce similar effects. |
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| Nicotina and Nicotianin are the proper fathers to the following |
| diseases,--Dispepsia, Water-brash, Cancer, Ramollissement, Impotence, |
| Fatuity, Caries, Consumption, Laryngitis, Cardialgia, Angina Pectoris, |
| Neuralgia, Paralysis, Amaurosis, Deafness, Liver Complaint, Apoplexy, |
| Insanity, Hippochondriasis, "Horrors," "Blues," and so on through the |
| greater part of the Nosological family. |
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| Because you are not killed outright you flatter your self that you are |
| not poisoned, but I tell you that you are, and you are dying by inches |
| or by sixteenths of inches if you please, how ever small the effect on |
| you it has some effect and finally by a continual pressing of that |
| effect it will kill you. Put your ear to the huge locust tree and hear |
| the gentle grating of a bore worm. Thou insignificant worm! What dost |
| thou hope to do with that monster tree? Grate, grate, grate! For years |
| that almost imperceptible grating goes on, while the mighty locust |
| lifts its towering branches in fancied security. Finally, a storm |
| comes and the locust hopes to brave it as he has many others; but, |
| alas, its strength is undermined; Its vitals are eaten away, and it |
| falls,--a victim to the tiny worm. Thus does tobacco, or alcohol, or |
| opium, or any other poison when taken habitually, undermine the |
| system, slowly, imperceptibly,--but surely. |
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| Go into any tobacco factory of cigars, snuff, or plug, and bring out |
| a healthy man if you can. |
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| Tobacco so destroys the sensations and functions of the mouth that, |
| mild natural drinks, are not tasted; hence one craves strong drinks, |
| something that will goad the deadened nerves into action. It produces |
| a state of exhaustion in the