are taken the circulation becomes unbalanced, vital resistance centers in
one point, congestion occurs, then the sensation becomes one of pain
instead of one of pleasure. This disturbance or excitement caused by
tobacco is nothing more nor less than disease. For it is abnormal action,
and abnormal action is fever, and fever is disease. It is state on good
authority, "that no one who smokes tobacco before the bodily powers
are developed ever makes a strong, vigorous man." Dr. H. Gibbons
says: "Tobacco impairs digestion, poisons the blood, depresses the
vital powers, causes the limbs to tremble, and weakens and otherwise
disorders the heart." It is conceded by the medical profession that
tobacco causes cancer of the tongue and lips, dimness of vision,
deafness, dyspepsia, bronchitis, consumption, heart palpitation, spinal
weakness, chronic tonsilitis, paralysis, impotency, apoplexy, and
insanity. It is held by some men that tobacco aids digestion. Dr.
McAllister, of Utica, New York, says that it "weakens the organs of
Digestion and assimilation, and at length plunges one into all the
horrors of dyspepsia."

*Tobacco dulls the mind.* It does this not only by wasting the body, the
physical basis of the mind, but it does it through habits of intellectual
idleness, which the user of tobacco naturally forms. Whoever heard of
a first-class loafer who did not e-a-t the weed or burn it, or both? On
the rail train recently we were compelled to ride for an hour in the
smoking-car, which Dr. Talmage has called "the nastiest place in
Christendom." In front of me sat a young man, drawing and puffing
away at a cigar, polluting the entire region about him. In the short
hour enough time was lost by that young man to have carefully read ten
pages of the best standard literature. All this we observed by an
occasional glance from the delightful volume in our own hands. The
ordinary user of tobacco has little taste for reading, little passion for