TOBACCO should never be mentioned except as a poison, one of the most active and fatal of poisons; it is the only herb known to possess two active deadly poisons, Nicotina and Nicotianin: It is really so fatal that doctors seldom administer it, and never internally. For an over dose of Opium, Arsenic, or Strychnine, when taken in time, there is a cure, but for an over dose of tobacco there is none; its effect on the system is Paleness, Nausea, Giddiness, Lessening of the heart's action, Vomiting, Purging, Cold-sweating, and utter Prostration, such as no other poison can induce, then death! Its evils are numerous we will notice a few as follows.
1. It impregnates the whole system with two of the most fatal poisons, Nicotina, and Nicotianin.
2. With either of which the system is subjected to continuous repair, therefore Doctors seldom advise one to quit it. It is too much like taking bread and butter from their babe's mouths.
3. It enslaves a man so that it requires a powerful exertion to break its chains and fetters to regain their freedom.
4. It causes dyspepsia by spitting off the saliva that ought to go to digest the food, aid the digestive system, and to regulate and heal the bowels.
5. When you breathe the smoke it produces asthma and lays the foundation for a train of other fatal diseases.
6. In breathing the two poisons into the lungs, often produces paralysis of the lungs and consumption.
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