THE USE OF TOBACCO BY BOYS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 29, 2 January 1884, Page 3

THE USE OF TOBACCO BY BOYS.

Tub Philadelphia JZfldfeaZ Reporter states that an energetic opposition to this practice is now being made in some of the most enlightened educational establishments in the United States, among which are the United States Naval Academy, at Anapolis, and the I nited States Military Academy, at West Point. The naval surgeons, and especially Dr. Gihon, U.S.N., have been the principal movers in the opposition, alleging that‘tobacco— 1. Leads to impaired nutrition of the nerve-centres. 2. ’ls a fertile cause of neuralgia, vertigo, and indigestion. 3. Irritates the mouth and throat, and destroys the purity of the voice. 4. Produces defects of vision; 5. Causes a tremulous, hard, and intermittent pulse, 6. Developes conspicuously irritability of the heart, 7. Retards the cell-change on which the devekpoment of adolescence depends. Moreover, it is alleged that the records of schools and colleges indicate very positively ihat tobacco deteriorates the mental jaeultiesi Non-smokers take the highest rank in every grade, and whether wo look at the exceptional brilliant students, or compare the average of those who use and those who refrain from tobacco the result shows the same.