A Cigar Scientifically Dissected.

salivary glands , and thus causes a desire to drink Avhile smoking . The tendency of carbonic aoid is to produce sleepiness , headache , and lassitude . When a cigar is smoked badly , that is , when combustion of the tobacco is SIOAV ancl incomplete , carbonic oxide is produced in small quantities

, and is an active poisoning agent , resulting in irregular motion of the heart , vomiting , convulsions of the muscles , and drowsiness . The nicotine tends to cause tremour , palp itation of the heart , aud paralysis . The valatiie empyreumatic substance produces

a sense of oppression , ancl taints the breath and surroundings of the smoker Avith the well known " stale tobacco smoke " smell . The bitter extract causes that sharp nauseous taste peculiar to a relighted cigar or an old pipe .

By trying the effect of tobacco smoke on loAver animals , Ave can obtain an idea of its influence on ourselves . Small insects are stupefied rapidly , but recover in fresh air . Cold-blooded animals succumb slowl y to the smoke , birds rapidly . Some animals , such as the goat , can eat tobacco Avith impunity ; but none escape the effects of the fumes . Persons suffer most from tobacco

while learning to smoke . Dr . Richardson says that the spasmodic seizures are sometimes terrible , especially in boys . There is a sensation of imminent death , the heart nearly ceases to beat , and sharp pains shoot through the chest . Examination of inferior animals under such conditions show that

" the brain is pale ancl empty of blood ; the stomach reddened in round spots , so raised and pile-like that they resemble patches of Utrecht velvet . " The blood is preternaturall y fluid , the lungs are as pale as those of a dead calf , and the heart is

feebl y trembling ; such is the primary action of one ' s first cigar . After a time , however , the body becomes accustomed to the influence of the poison ; a'id Avith . the exception of constant functional disturbances ( owing to the excretory

organs , notably the kidneys , being compelled to do work not essential to their duties ) no distressing results are felt , there are numerous instances where the evil effects are scarcely appreciable , the ph ysical ancl nervous constitution of the smoker being capable of resisting the inuuonce . In many cases copious salivation steads smoking , and in this circumstance

the opponents of tobacco have found a strong argument . Still , either to expectorate or not to do so is a choice of tAvo evils . In the latter case the result is to swallow the saliva charged with a poisonous matter ; in the former , the saliva needed to prepare food for digestion is lostand

, besides as it contains salts of lime in solution , the effect is to produce large formations of tartar on the teeth . " Smoker ' s sore throat" is a special irritable state of the mucous membrane induced by cigar smoking , which soon disappears Avhen the

habit is broken off . Tobacco smoke does not produce consumption or bronchitis , but it tends to aggravate both maladies . Its effect on the organs of sense is to cause , in the extreme degree , dilation of the pupils of the eye ; confusion of vision ,

niesbright illminious , or cobweb specks , and long retention of images on the retina , with other and analogous symptoms affecting the ear , namely , inability to define sounds clearly , and the concurrence of a sharp ringing sound like that of a Avhistle

or a bell . Its effect on the brain is to impair the activity of that organ , and to oppress it if it be duly nourished , but to sooth it if it be exhausted . It leads to

paralysis in the volitional and in the sympathetic or organic nerves , and to oversecretion from the glandular structure And yet , despite all that science can say , the habit is increasing . Two centuries ago the Turks regarded smoking as a reliious offenceand paraded a smoker

g , through the streets of Constantinople Avith a pipe stuck through his nose as a Avarning to others . Who can disconnect the Turk noAV from the idea of chibouque oramgileh , or fragrant Latakia ] Look at the best cigar wrappers the Avorld can produce , raised on Tobacco fields in the heart of

New England , where the Puritan fathers once visited the direst of blue laAv vengeance on the Avretch ' who profaned his Maker ' s handiwork by " making a chimney of his nostrils . " The value of tobacco eroj > last year reached nearly 30 , 000 , 000 dollars . We consume annually some 75 , 000 hogsheads of the leaf . We imported about

83 , 000 bales of cigars , etc ., from Cuba in 1875 .

What is the end of it all ? Effects on individuals likewise affect the communities ; these in turn influence the nation .