A voice from Hawaii / by T.S. Southwick.

  • Southwick, T. S.
Date:
Between 1880 and 1889?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A voice from Hawaii / by T.S. Southwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SMOKE NOT No. 30. A Voice from Hawaii. By T. S. Southwick, Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. The purpose of the following facts and thoughts is to bring to the mind more fully the evil effects and lamentable results of the use of a very common poison, with the hope that a careful perusal will lead to the abandoning of the habit, if already formed. Tobacco is one of the deadliest of poisons ; it is said that one pound of it will kill 300 men, and a single cigar contains enough poison to extinguish two human lives, if taken at once. The use of Tobacco causes indigestion, dyspepsia, paralysis, catarrh, sleeplessness, irritability of temper, tumours, cancers, giddiness, headache, faintness, defective vision, insanity and many other incurable diseases. It deranges the regular pulsation of the heart, causing what is known as Tobacco-heart. A frequent imbiber of nicotine may fall dead at any time. It weakens the intellect and favours a dreamy and imbecile state of mind; encourages careless inactivity, paralyzes the will and deadens moral sensibilities and honour, helping many to practice ruthless and unrestrained deceptions, who otherwise would be men of principle. It impairs the memory, injures the imagination and weakens the nervous system, making a giown man nervous and ambitionless, and a boy frequently a lunatic. It injures the voice, the teeth, and the eyes, poisons the stomach, dries up the blood, and shatters and wastes the con¬ stitution. It is a sin, inasmuch as it wastes money, time, strength and life, and thus tramples on the laws of God. Dr. Edward Smith says: “The whole tendency of the action of Tobacco is towards disease, and it is impossible to say how much good it has prevented.” An English Medical Journal, The Scalpel, says : “ If there is a vice more prostrating to body and mind and more crucifying to all the sympathies of man's spiritual nature, we have yet to be convinced of it.” Smoking is the most injurious manner of using Tobacco, because it sends its poison directly to the lungs through the breath, and if persisted in must cause disease of the lungs and sometimes consumption. The system recognizing nicotine as a foreign element or a poison, seeks to throw it off as soon as it is detected, hence the usual sickness when Tobacco is first used, but the poison is not always easily expelled from the outraged system and remains sometimes many years after persons have quit the use of Tobacco. Nicotine has been detected in the tissues of the lungs and liver after death.