Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1888 — Tobacco. [ARTICLE]

Tobacco.

St. Louis Magazine. The effect of excesive tobacco using is two-fold—constitional and local. It slows the circulation of the blood, blunts the nervous sensibility, and hardens and thickens the tissues of the body; locallv it produces maligant ulcers. Of all the men who use tobacco, those who use it In order to quiet irritable nerves are ip the greatest danger. They are on the high road to a complete break down of the nervous system—nervous prostration. Of the inmates of a certain asylum for the insane, seven-tenths of the males were excessive tobacco users.