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The Truth about Tobacco - How to break the habit

By Bernarr Macfadden

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Nicotine is undoubtedly the most universally used of all poisons. In the blistering heat of the tropics; in the biting cold of the arctic; on the broad highway of the tumbling waves; and among the dead desert wastes, man companions himself with tobacco. It affords temporary narcotic gratification to the genius; it is indispensable to the gangster. In its fumes the poet finds strange themes; behind its filmy cloud the prostitute hides herself. From early childhood to senile age it is woven into the warp and woof of human endeavor. Billions of dollars of tribute are paid annually to the Minotaur. Thousands of acres of splendid timberland, and millions of dollars of valuable property are destroyed yearly by the gross carelessness and stupidity of its addicts. To its worship its devotees annually contribute uncounted millions of valuable work or study hours. In its production, manufacture and sale hundreds of thousands are busily engaged. Tobacco adds immeasurably to the cost of human existence; it subtracts immeasurably from the length and breadth of human life. Tobacco is insidious in its debauching and degenerating influence. It undermines the integrity of the moral faculty—especially in the young—while shredding the nervous systems of young and old alike. Those engaged in exploiting the drugged weed are sincere and honest men, who would, no doubt, feel a great compunction of conscience if they realized that they were innocently responsible for prostituting the best instincts of the race. And yet slave dealers for many centuries, and rum dealers, for an equal length of time, were quite as satisfied that their trade was thoroughly legitimate. We now know, however, that it was not. And the voice of Civilization is emphasizing the fact in no uncertain terms. And this brings me to the crux of my tale. I could not conscientiously accept pay for prostituting my fellow-man. I believe that employers of labor will soon come generally to recognize the insidious effect of the poison upon their employees, and that ultimately they will discountenance its use—in the same way that they have discountenanced the use of alcohol. I believe that those who now so brazenly extol the alleged glories and virtues of tobacco indulgence, for the profit they make in selling the stuff, will be thoroughly ashamed of their calling. Some of them may, perhaps, even repent of their ways, and reform—although this is not at all likely. I may not live to see this brought about. But if ever it is brought to pass, one very terrible degenerative influence will have been banished from the land. Men and women will be cleaner and sweeter. The stunted adolescent will attain his growth. Money that could do so much for the development of civilization will be diverted into constructive channels. With this end in view this book was prepared with the aid of the best obtainable scientific authorities.

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GenreSelf-Help

Length2 hrs 52 mins

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Publish dateFeb 22, 2016

LanguageEnglish

1Introduction

2Chapter I. How Tobacco Came into Use

3How the Medicine Man Mixed Business with Tobacco

4The Evolution of the Pipe

5How Tobacco Became a Medicine

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6How Smoking Came into General Use

7How the Doctors Spread the Use of Tobacco

8The Golden Age of Tobacco

9How the Habit Grew

10How the Plague Helped Spread the Use of Tobacco

11Some Bad Habits Won’t Stay Killed

12Encircling the Globe With Cigarettes

13Chapter II. “The Weed”

14How Smoking Causes Catarrh

15“Smoker’s Heart”

16Smoking does Not Help Thinking

17How Tobacco Affects Will Power

18How “Cigarette Fiends” are Made

19Not All are Affected Alike by Tobacco

20When the Pipe Is Least Harmful

21What Constitutes Addiction?

22Chapter III. What Science Says about Smokes

23Where the Life Extension Institute Stands on the Tobacco Question

24How Smoking Affects the Birth Rate

25The Weight of Evidence

26Chapter IV. Are They Really Coffin Nails ?

27Why the Cigarette is the Most Insidious Form of Tobacco Addiction

28How Smokers Get Their Tremor

29If You Have the Cigarette Habit

30Some Medical Men Defend the Cigarette

31The Cigarette Wrapper and Its Poison Smoke

32Are Cigarettes Doped?

33The Attitude of the Medical Journals

34Weaving a Wreath for the Cigarette

35Chapter V. Cigarettes as a Cause of Crime, Insanity and Physical Deterioration

36How Cigarette Smokers Become Criminals

37Cigarette Smokers Lose Their Power of Blushing

38How the Japanese Show Good Sense

39What Two Noted Judges Think of Smoking

40How a Wise Judge Interpreted the Facts

41How the Cigarette Affects the Health of Boys

42How Cigarettes Cause Insanity

43What Insurance Companies Think about Tobacco

44Healing of Wounds Retarded by Smoking

45Chapter VI. Tobacco and Your Job

46It Pays To Advertise

47Putting Tobacco Blinders on the Pitching Eye

48Another Reason why Smoking is Becoming Unpopularin Industry

49The Smoker is Becoming a Luxury that Industry Cannot Afford

50Chapter VII. Chewing, Snuffing and Rubbing

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