ON 
 
 SMOKING, CHEWING, 
 
 SNUFFING; 
 
 33otf) JKentallg anU 33oirtIg. 
 
 By MARSHALL. 
 
 EOIKESTONE : 
 
 E. Creed, Printer and Bookseller, Bail Street. 
 1848. 
 
 ENTERED AT STATIONERS’ HALE. 
 
Qm©©wa®!EU 
 
 To THE EE.VDEE, 
 
 I trust this little book will prove as useful as the 
 Writer’s hopes lead him to expect, feeling certain that 
 the majority of Smokers, Chewers, and Snuffers, arc 
 not altogether aware of its consequences; they never 
 imagine either can bring on illness, but always impute it 
 to some other cause, whereas both smoking and chewing, 
 and likewise snuffing long peristed in, bring on the 
 worst of maladies, and aggravate nearly every complaint. 
 
 The AUTHOR. 
 
MISCHEVIOUS & DESTRUCTIVE TENDENCY, 
 
 BOTH MENTALLY AND BODILY. 
 
 mHE following is an unexaggerated account of the 
 effects of smoking on the constitution, as proved 
 hy the best Physicians, and also by myself and numbers 
 of smokers. Its danger has been fully tested by them 
 both practically and theoretically. It brings on depravity 
 and weakness of the brain, in time affecting all its mem- 
 bers, gradually but surely ; memory and all the intel¬ 
 lectual powers are weakened and corrupted by its use; 
 it is soothing, stupifying, and deadening, which is a sure 
 indication of its pernicious working on the brain. It 
 should be shunned as the worst of poison (which it is) 
 by everyone inclined for study, and by everyone who 
 has an inclination to do what they have to do in a proper 
 manner; also by the invalid, and by everyone who 
 would wish to enjoy pleasure without alloy. 
 
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 In many persons it causes a very bad. temper, and in 
 all smokers great shakiness and nervousness, and makes 
 them pften disagreeable to talk with, muddles and 
 makes them swimmy; it also renders them unfit to 
 write properly immediately after the act. It is destructive 
 to the teeth, and causes a sad waste in that rich and 
 necessary fluid, the Saliva, thereby interfering with the 
 functions of digestion, for it would be better that scarcely 
 any food be taken at all, than to bolt or swallow it, 
 without properly impregnating it with the Saliva, and 
 giving it a perfect mastication. The sickly smoker will 
 therefore see his danger. The Lungs likewise suffer— 
 it gives a sheepish, pale, sollow, thin, and . emaciated 
 appearance to many; in fact it is highly injurious to the 
 strong, but more especially to the weak, to the fat, but 
 more particularly the lean. Its constant tendency is to 
 level us with the brute. It is all outlay, without the 
 least particle of return or benefit. 
 
 To those troubled with any complaint, such as nervous 
 debility, low spirits, head-aches, melancholy and depres¬ 
 sion, caused by particular excesses, it is a great aggra¬ 
 vation, indeed, to a great many it is the sole cause of 
 these complaints; scarcely any cures need be expected 
 while smoking, chewing, or snuffing is persisted in. 
 Let any smoker, stkong or weakly, leave off the habit, 
 (say for one week,) and see if he will not be fifty times 
 more competent to attend to his business or pleasure, 
 by being the possessor of a more valuable and clearer 
 head . 1 "Business will then (in time) become a pleasure, 
 
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 but "if.' will be" imperatively necessary to keep from 
 thinking of the detestable'Kabit, or it will, till we be- 
 comeusedfo its'diffcbiitinuance, cause'a little annoyance; 
 keep the‘mind 'employed—do not let it have (like a 
 child) any little toy 'it may ivaiit fo play with. ' It time 
 you wiirfirid more' difficulty to return to it, than you 
 now experience' in' your endeavours to leave it off; 
 strong minds will ndt'firid' it difficult to leaveoff, weak 
 minds may find' it rather difficult at first; but strong 
 minds are soon weakened by the use'of tobacco, so that 
 it may be inferred, the longer we use ourselves to a bad 
 habit, the longer it takes to cure us of the evil effects of 
 that habit, and to give us our natural-strength and com¬ 
 mand over' ourselves, so the sooner we set about an 
 improvement the better; but I will venture to say, that 
 in a month or so, those who have been great smokers, 
 will have reason to be thankful for having abandoned the 
 filthy and pernicious practice. They will not wish to 
 return to it again, unless they have a very lazy turn of 
 mind, with no firmness of character left, which must be 
 deeply deplored. 
 
 Its great annoyance to the gentler sex. must not be 
 passed over in silence, for it is very great in many in¬ 
 stances, although they generally suppress and hide the 
 disgust they have and fe A through it. Many young nun 
 have entirely left off smoking on this account alone, but 
 they have had strong minds, and have left off in time, 
 thinking this objection quite sufficient to warrant them 
 
in feeling a disgust at it. But this is a very small ob- 
 jection in comparison'with the effects we have shown it 
 has on the constitution, it however tends to show what 
 can be done by a right way of thinking. And in con¬ 
 clusion, (if you wish to improve) the writer begs to 
 request you will not let the habit master you any longer, 
 which it assuredly will, if you do not act the man. You 
 need not fret about the revenue, tobaccanist, or cabbage 
 dealer, they will rub on without you—look to home 
 first. _■ . . 
 
 The following are extracts from eminent Medical Gen¬ 
 tlemen on the subject,.— 
 
 “ Tobacco plays a:very important part in this country,. 
 as to the habits of the people.; however used, whether 
 smoked, chewed, or taken as snuff, its action on the 
 system.is.but little different.- It is essentially a narcotic,, 
 and as such it is. detrimental, to the power and healthi¬ 
 ness of the nervous system, as such, it stimulates, at the. 
 expense of subsequent; .depression,-and eventual loss of. 
 tone, .as such,:it interferes, with,.the functions of assimi¬ 
 lation and expenditure,-.and as such, is injurious to the 
 health .'of the system, t 
 
 ■ “Tobacco :exerts more.marked and- injurious effects 
 when; chewed,less of these when smoked, and is least- 
 deleterious when used-in the .form, of-snuff; this is only. 
 
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 however, a question of degree,.and in .the .temperate,, 
 climates the use of tobacco in any .way. can only be 
 justifiable, when from poverty of diet, and consequent 
 vital depression, the effects of an habitually used narcotic 
 may not be. undesirable.” 
 
 llonnit’i’soK, “on Diet and'llegimen.” 
 
 “THE MISCHIEF OF SMOKING.—In the first 
 place it occasions, usually, a terrible waste of Saliva, 
 which Saliva otherwise would go to assist in digesting 
 the food; but in proportion to the excessive demand, 
 such as occasioned by smoking, does it become thin and 
 inefficient for that purpose. If smoking do not provoke 
 spitting, it exercises more freely its narcotic and slupifying 
 properly; hence the notion that smoking is soothing and 
 comforting, because it. may thereby certainly tranquilize, 
 but whilst it composes, it most insidiously." enervates. 
 Inveterate smokers invariably, more or less, are. dyspep¬ 
 tics, and, with scarcely an exception, highly nervous. 
 Smoking usually provokes drinking, and hence another 
 evil. But I almost question whether smoking alone, 
 where it must be, or will be persevered in, is not more 
 mischievous without a stimulant, which, latter, by di¬ 
 verting the secretions, comes off the > effects of the 
 tobacco. Smoking therefore, alone or with drink, 
 especially if indulged into to excess, creates great.shaki- 
 ness and nervousness tli« following day. Independent 
 
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 of this ordinary consequence from a smoking ‘bout,’ the 
 continual use of it spoils the teeth, renders offensive the 
 breath, thins the face most remarkably, gives a dark 
 shade under the eyes, and, what is well attested by 
 first-rate medical authority, tends terribly to emasculate 
 the strongest individual. An invalid should not smoke, 
 and a man who studies his health had better also ab¬ 
 stain from it.” 
 
 Dr. Culveeweli, on “How to be happy.” 
 
 “Among the habits to be avoided, is that of tobacco 
 smoking; odious and vulgar as it is, whoever may be 
 addicted to it. It is peculiarly objectionable in youth 
 in course of education for the medical profession; offen¬ 
 sive as it necessarily must be to patients who are cogni¬ 
 sant of it, either by smell or sight. Independent of its 
 pernicious effects, it also marks an inferiority of mind, 
 and disposition to other idle and lounging habits, habits 
 injurious in a high degree (if not fatal) to mental progress, 
 and to the acquisition of knowledge.” 
 
 Mr. Mamin's “Memorandum on Medical 
 Apprenticeship.” 
 
 “Snuffing and smoking, medically speaking, are 
 both abominably unwholesome. To those whom 
 smoking causes to spit, it is productive of great depres¬ 
 sion, and considerable nervous irritability;] to those who 
 say they swallow their saliva, it is equally pernicious; 
 
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 to those who are insensible to secretion, it acts locally, 
 and its influence is conveyed by the nervous extremities 
 to the BRAIN.” 
 
 “The property of Tobacco is sedative, stupifying, 
 creative of vomiting, and if swallowed in the form of 
 infusion, poisonous. The great smoker is generally 
 shaky and nervous, and like the drinker, never happy 
 but when engaged in his favorite propensity. Some 
 people it muddles, makes them swimmy, and very disa¬ 
 greeable to talk to. To say nothing of the nuisance of 
 smoking,—the habit captivating and socializing as it 
 may be, is decidedly bad, very bad for delicate persons. 
 As to chewing, it happily is not a national habit, it is so 
 beastly a one that there is little to fear of an invalid re¬ 
 sorting to it; it is even more pernicious than smoking. 
 With regard to snuff, young men should particularly 
 avoid becoming snuffers, as a very short indulgence 
 makes them look ten years older. These habits are 
 very easy to acquire, and very difficult to leave off; but 
 it is not as some people say, dangerous to abandon them 
 at the eleventh hour of your life; mayhap such may not 
 be necessary, but I have known people give up smoking 
 and snuffing which they had indulged in for years, at a 
 moment’s notice, and those people have been my patients, 
 and they have soon found reason to thank me for the 
 advice.” 
 
 Dr. Culverwell, on “ Guide to health.” 
 
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 ■ A Friend states, “That after smoking twenty-seven 
 years, and falling into very had health—head weak and 
 sight failing—he resolved to abandon the use of tobacco : 
 he has adhered to his resolution for two years, and has 
 now completely recovered his health and strength." 
 
 Family Heeald, No. 259. 
 
 finis. 
 
 FOLKESTONE: 
 
 . F. Creed, Printer and Bookseller, Bail Street. 
 
 1848.