Smoking and your stature
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008In the opinion of a physiologist of Chicago, tobacco contains nicotine, which is so poisonous that if 1/400 oz. of it is injected into the blood of a man, he will die. One third part of this quantity is always present in each cigarette. The heartbeat increases due to nicotine. The heart of a smoker has to beat 30,000 times in twenty-four hours. “From this it is gathered that nicotine is a poisonous substance. Due to constant smoking slow poison accumulates in the body. The lungs are consequently affected and digestion is also disturbed. The rickets of the chest increase and memory is also affected.
Warnings have been given against smoking, from time to time, in the various spheres of society. But the smokers laugh at these warnings and do not care for them. They do not think them to be worthy of consideration. In the buses and frowns we often find it written: ‘SMOKING PROHIBITED’. Even in offices, cinema halls and factories and also at places of public interest, such a prohibition is notified. You should have thought over the reasons for the same. The main reason underlying this warning seems to be the need for protection from fire. There is, however, another reason, and it is this that smoking is considered to be anti-religious and anti-moral in certain places.
Besides this, those people who do not smoke find faults and faults alone in smoking, while those who smoke, dwell upon its need and point out that it creates in them a mood (to work) and helps clear their bowels.
But here we are not concerned with the other advantages or disadvantages of cigarettes. We only want to know whether cigarette smoking is at all concerned with the increase or decrease of our stature.
We are not to analyze here the cigarettes scientifically and to put up before you a long list of poisons found in them and to startle you thereby. We only want to state briefly that the cigarettes contain certain poisonous elements, which very much hinder the development of the body, particularly during adolescence. Smoking not only badly affects the lungs of a person, but there is always a fear of ‘cancer’ and the growth of the stature is also retarded. This is the conclusion which is derived from the latest scientific researches. All the scientists also agree with the inference that the nicotine present in cigarettes is very much harmful for health.-Hence the people who want to increase their height are advised to get rid of this habit as early as possible.