قراءة كتاب Vanity, All Is Vanity: A Lecture on Tobacco and its effects
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Vomiting, Purging, Cold-sweating, and utter Prostration, such as no other poison can induce, then death! Its evils are numerous we will notice a few as follows.
1. It impregnates the whole system with two of the most fatal poisons, Nicotina, and Nicotianin.
2. With either of which the system is subjected to continuous repair, therefore Doctors seldom advise one to quit it. It is too much like taking bread and butter from their babe's mouths.
3. It enslaves a man so that it requires a powerful exertion to break its chains and fetters to regain their freedom.
4. It causes dyspepsia by spitting off the saliva that ought to go to digest the food, aid the digestive system, and to regulate and heal the bowels.
5. When you breathe the smoke it produces asthma and lays the foundation for a train of other fatal diseases.
6. In breathing the two poisons into the lungs, often produces paralysis of the lungs and consumption.
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7. It gradually weakens and destroys the whole nervous system and is the cause of a large majority of cases of Insanity, which can readily be found in all stages, among those who use tobacco.
8. It makes one appear to be ill-bred and extremely distasteful in society.
9. It is said by critics to entirely destroy a certain faculty of the mind.
10. It renders one's breath very repugnant to a companion.
11. It is continually drawing on the pocket for the small change that might be laid up.
12. When taken as snuff it wonderfully impairs and often paralyzing and destroys the Olfactory nerves and deprives one of the sense of smell.
13. It creates a craving for Alcoholic drinks, it prostrates the system to such an extent that nature calls for aid by stimulants, hence the craving for drinks, peppers, mustards, &c., &c.
14. It creates an inordinate desire for excitement such as Noose and Novel reading, and a loathing of Science and Philosophy.
15. The smoke has a wonderful tendency to weaken and impair the eye-sight.
16. Its use is an evil example to the young who look to us for advice and protection from evil.
17. It decomposes and devitalizes the electrovita fluid in the human system.
18. The system of the tobacco users is always in a morbid condition, as proof when you are sick you can't use it; for be it known that two morbid conditions can not exist in the system at the same time; one will drive out the other.
19. The poison is transmitted to the unborn infant, many times impairing its vital organs and causing a pre-mature death: and I once heard a Physician of much learning and practic, Dr. Niles. Say that there never was nor ever could be a healthy child born of parents who were habitual tobacco users. And I apprehend that every doctor of note in the land will witness the same thing.
TOBACCO EATERS! Is the most appropriate name for the users of Tobacco; as much so as the vile disgusting loathsome green worm that swallows the poison leaf into its stomach. For the poison of the quid and the smoke is taken up by the blood vessels and absorbents of the mouth, and carried into the circulation, even in a more virulent form than if introduced by the stomach.
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