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uently expect to hear of this legal luminary [ it certair again.THE DANGERS OF CIGARETTE SMOKING.Scarcely less injurious,^ a subtle and generally unrecognised way, than the babit of taking “ nips ’ of alcohol between meals, says a writer in a medical paper, is the growing practice of smoking cigarettes incessantly.Wo have not a word to say against smoking at suitable times and in moderation, nor do our remarks at this moment apply to the uso of cigars or pipes. It is against the habit of smoking cigarettes in large quantities, with the belief that these miniature doses of nicotine are innocuous, that we desire to enter a protest.The truth is that, perhaps owing to the way the tobacco-leaf is shredded, coupled with tho fact that it is brought into mor direct relation with the mouth and air passages than when it is smoked in a pipe or cigar, the effect* produced on the nervous system by a free consumption of cigarettes, are more marked and characteristic than these recognisable after recourse to other modes of smoking.A pulse-trac:ng made after the stbject hassmoked say a dozen cigarettes will, as a rule, beflatter and more indicative of depression than one taken after the smoking of cigars. It is no uncommon practice for young men who smoke cigarettes habitually to consume from eight to twelve in an hour, and to keep this up for four or five hours daily. 1The total quantity of tobacco used may not seettl large, but beyond question the volume of smoke ter which the breath organs of the smoker are exposed, and the characteristics of that smoke as regards the proportion of nicotene introduced into the ajstem, combine to place [the organism refj fully under the influence of tobacco.A considerable number of cases have been brought under our notice during the last few months, in whieh youths and young men who have not yet completed the full t£rm of physical development have had their health seriously impaired by the practice of almost incessantlysmoking cigarettes.•4 Youebina-dethroughlion of c “ Yep 44 Ant 44 Yes 44 Novto get lu to purchand six 44 Yes44 Aftiayou would y14 Twboy gazi41 Th§14 She 41 Ne^change44 Sev44 Yai44 Doi44 Ne^much m44 Bui the boy, 44 Wethe deal44I dc them cu sister gc with nei44 Th( 44 W144 Yei44 Oh44 Cot 44 We other fo when } note mi no risk?44 Yo
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Saint Johns Colonist
Saint Johns, Newfoundland, CA
Mon, Jul 23, 1888
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