Is tobacco smoking injurious to health? : medical opinions collated from the Lancet / by Herbert H. Tidswell.
- Tidswell, Herbert H. (Herbert Henry)
- Date:
- 1907
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Is tobacco smoking injurious to health? : medical opinions collated from the Lancet / by Herbert H. Tidswell. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![+ important question upon which the happiness or misery of thousands depends. “So strongly do I feel its importance, that I believe if the habit of smoking in England advances as it has done in the last ten or twelve years, that the English character will lose that combination of energy and solidity which has hitherto distinguished it and that England will sink in the scale of nations. “The more I think of the tobacco question, the more it haunts me. I feel that I cannot do justice to its importance, but I am anxious to add something to my last communication. “ The profession have no idea of the ignorance of the public of the nature of tobacco. Even intelligent well educated men stare inastonishment when you tell them that tobacco is one of the strongest poisons we possess. “ Now is this right ? “ Has the medical profession done its duty ? “Ought we not as a body to have told the public, that of all our poisons, it is the most insidious, uncertain, and in full doses, the most deadly? [ . “What a blessing it would have been to mankind, if all men had shrunk from this plague of the brain as did the first Napoleon. “One inhalation was enough: in disgust, he exclaimed, ‘Oh, the swine! my stomach turns. It is a habit only fit to amuse sluggards.’ | [ ] “T have been asked to produce facts in proof of the deleterious effects of tobacco. No man](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33430378_0004.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
