| Fatuity, Caries, Consumption, Laryngitis, Cardialgia, Angina Pectoris, | | Neuralgia, Paralysis, Amaurosis, Deafness, Liver Complaint, Apoplexy, | | Insanity, Hippochondriasis, "Horrors," "Blues," and so on through the | | greater part of the Nosological family. | | | | Because you are not killed outright you flatter your self that you are | | not poisoned, but I tell you that you are, and you are dying by inches | | or by sixteenths of inches if you please, how ever small the effect on | | you it has some effect and finally by a continual pressing of that | | effect it will kill you. Put your ear to the huge locust tree and hear | | the gentle grating of a bore worm. Thou insignificant worm! What dost | | thou hope to do with that monster tree? Grate, grate, grate! For years | | that almost imperceptible grating goes on, while the mighty locust | | lifts its towering branches in fancied security. Finally, a storm | | comes and the locust hopes to brave it as he has many others; but, | | alas, its strength is undermined; Its vitals are eaten away, and it | | falls,--a victim to the tiny worm. Thus does tobacco, or alcohol, or | | opium, or any other poison when taken habitually, undermine the | | system, slowly, imperceptibly,--but surely. | | | | Go into any tobacco factory of cigars, snuff, or plug, and bring out | | a healthy man if you can. | | | | Tobacco so destroys the sensations and functions of the mouth that, | | mild natural drinks, are not tasted; hence one craves strong drinks, | | something that will goad the deadened nerves into action. It produces | | a state of exhaustion in the whole system that calls for an artificial | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+