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brain. Often it affects the nerves in a more powerful manner than does
intoxicating drink. It is more subtle, and its effects are difficult to
eradicate from the system. Its use excites a thirst for strong drink and
in many cases lays the foundation for the liquor habit.
The use of tobacco is inconvenient, expensive, uncleanly, defiling
to the user, and offensive to others.
Among children and youth the use of tobacco is working untold
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harm. Boys begin the use of tobacco at a very early age. The habit thus
formed when body and mind are especially susceptible to its effects,
undermines the physical strength, dwarfs the body, stupefies the mind,
and corrupts the morals
There is no natural appetite for tobacco in nature unless inherited.
By the use of tea and coffee an appetite is formed for tobacco.
Food prepared with condiments and spices inflames the stomach,
corrupts the blood, and paves the way to stronger stimulants
The highly seasoned flesh meats and the tea and coffee, which
some mothers encourage their children to use, prepare the way for
them to crave stronger stimulants, as tobacco. The use of tobacco
encourages the appetite for liquor
Tobacco Smoke Harmful to Women and Children
Women and children suffer from having to breathe the atmosphere
that has been polluted by the pipe, the cigar, or the foul breath of
the tobacco user. Those who live in this atmosphere will always be
ailing
By inhaling the poisonous tobacco effluvia, which is thrown from
the lungs and pores of the skin, the system of the infant is filled
with poison. While it acts upon some infants as a slow poison, and
affects the brain, heart, liver, and lungs, and they waste away and fade
gradually, upon others, it has a more direct influence, causing spasms,
fits, paralysis, and sudden death. Every exhalation of the lungs of the
tobacco slave [user] poisons the air about him
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The Ministry of Healing, 327, 329
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Temperance, 56, 57
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Testimonies for the Church 3:488, 489
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Testimonies for the Church 5:440
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Temperance, 58, 59