The poison is transmitted to the unborn infant, many times |
| impairing its vital organs and causing a pre-mature death: and I once |
| heard a Physician of much learning and practic, Dr. NILES. Say that |
| there never was nor ever could be a HEALTHY CHILD born of parents who |
| were habitual tobacco users. And I apprehend that every doctor of note |
| in the land will witness the same thing. |
| |
| TOBACCO EATERS! Is the most appropriate name for the users of Tobacco; |
| as much so as the vile disgusting loathsome green worm that swallows |
| the poison leaf into its stomach. For the poison of the quid and the |
| smoke is taken up by the blood vessels and absorbents of the mouth, |
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| and carried into the circulation, even in a more virulent form than if |
| introduced by the stomach. |
| |
| Every doctor will tell you that he is more afraid to give tobacco, |
| even as an enema, than any other poison in the Materia Medica: he |
| never gives it by the stomach.
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