A WORD FOR TOBACCO.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1810, 21 October 1874, Page 2

A WORD FOR TOBACCO.

It is only fair'on. tobacco to point out that it is gradually clearing itself from many of the serious charges brought against it. It has been frequently and persistently alleged that among. other ill effects (besides death and madness) produced by tobacco is destruction of the. teeth. This, it appears, is entirely amistake. Instead of tobacco causing the teeth to decay it is the very best thing in the world for them, and those who wish to preserve their teeth should immediately take to smoking, if they have not already indulged in the habit. At a lecture on teeth, laughing gas, and electricity as connected wiih dental surgery, delivered recently by Mr Thomas Brown at the Barnsbury Hall, the lecturer observed that it was popularly considered that the practice of smoking deteriorated the teeth. " There could," he added; "be no greater fallacy; It was true that it sometimes discoloured the teeth, but it did not causo decay ; on the contrary it prevented decay, oa account of the disinfecting properties of tobacco smoke." This leaves thoßritish Anti-Tobacco Association and other kindred bodies in a very disagreeblo position, for it destroys all confidence in the awful predictions they are in the habit of uttering as to the fate of smokers.