Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1916 — Tobacco Aids Soldiers. [ARTICLE]

Tobacco Aids Soldiers.

The beneficent effects of tobacco at the front were affirmed by the Lancet as long ago as 1870, when the question was being discussed in connection with the Franco-Prussian war. “The soldier,” it was said, “wearied with long marches and uncertain rest, obtaining his food how and when he can, with his nervous system always in a state of tension from the dangers and excitement he encounters, finds that his cigar or pipe enables him to sustain fatigue with comparative equanimity. . . . For the wounded it is probable that tobacco has slight anodyne and narcotic properties that enable the sufferer to sustain pain better during the day, and to obtain sleep during the night.”—London Chronicle