Smoking tobacco, and the use of tobacco in every form, is a habit better
not acquired, and when acquired is better abandoned. The young should
especially avoid the habit. It gives a doubtful pleasure for a certain
penalty. Less destructive than alcohol, it induces various nervous
changes, some of which pass into organic modifications of function. So
long as the practice of smoking is continued the smoker is temporarily
out of health. When the odour of tobacco hangs long on the breath and
other secretions of the smoker, that smoker is in danger. Excessive
smoking has proved directly fatal.