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An essay on the influence of tobacco upon life and health

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The essay surveys tobacco's geographic origins and worldwide spread, recounts historical and legal reactions to its adoption, and presents medical observations linking habitual use to impaired respiratory, digestive, and nervous function. It assembles case reports and contemporary authorities to argue that intentional use of a narcotic vegetable subverts natural appetites and harms health, and it critiques social customs that normalize smoking, chewing, and snuffing. The author combines historical narrative, legislative examples, and clinical evidence to caution readers about dependence and to advocate restraint or regulation.

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This is proved by applying it to these organs in infancy, among those children whose parents do not use tobacco. Caspar Hausser, who was fed wholly on farinaceous food and water, from infancy to the age of sixteen or seventeen years, was made sick to vomiting by walking for a "considerable time by the side of a tobacco field."

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I have recently seen two cases; one caused by the excessive use of snuff, the other by the chewing of tobacco and swallowing the saliva.