Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1881 — Women Who use Tobacco. [ARTICLE]

Women Who use Tobacco.

In the course of a recent talk a prominent New York physician saia: “I didn’t think anything about that when I spoke, but it is nevertheless true that American women largely use tobacco. In fact, they always have. American ladies of African de- , scent in the south have always smoked their pipes, and their white sisters do not altogether disdain the pipe and ‘dipping?’ But here at the north many ladies have, in intimation of Cuhan Mexican, South American, Spanish, French and even English women, taken to the use of cigaretts, to their very great detriment.” “Why more so than to men.” “I don’t think men are often injured by the moderate use of tobacco in smoking. But the female body is no more adapted to the use of tobacco than the female mind is to mathematics. It causes neuralgia,headache, dyspepsia, palpitation of the heart, and, worst of all, ruins the complexion and disorders the teeth. I say nothing about the health, but I think, nevertheless*, that all will agree that the stale odor of tobacco coming from a woman’s mouth is worse than the same smell exhaled by a man. As tb chewing in men, and its analogy ‘dipping,’ in women, nothing can be filthier, and I knew that both are productive of diseases of the nervous system. “But, Doctor, does not smokingcause disease of the nervous system in men as well as women ?” “Certainly it does if indulged in to excess. But the men’s nervous systems are not so impressionable as women’s and hence a man can do many things with impunity or even benefit which would be impossible for a woman to do without great risk. And. besides, its does not make much difference to a man if his complexion ia sallow, his eye lustreless, his body shriveled, and his skin rough, whereas these things are very Important to women.” “I see yen are an admirer of beauty in women. Doctor?” ’’Yea, It is the greatest gift a woman can have, for ft not only means aesthetic enjoyment for all who look at her, but it means a healthy mind and a healthy body; and then the means neoetsary to preserve beauty

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