Do this all the more decidedly because, as we have told you before, alcohol and tobacco hurt children and young persons in every way more than they injure any one else.  If you have begun to use these poisons, give them up this very day, before the habit of using them becomes too strong for you to break.

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QUESTIONS ON THE USE OF TOBACCO.

Of what poison beside alcohol have you been studying?—­“Tobacco.”

How is tobacco used?—­“Some take it in snuff; some chew it; some smoke it in a pipe; some smoke it in cigars or cigarettes.”

What is the name of the strongest poison in tobacco?—­“Nicotine.”

What harm does tobacco poison do to the body?—­See Blackboard Outline.

What harm does it do to the mind?—­See Blackboard Outline.

Whom does it harm most?—­“Those who begin to use it when they are children or very young.”

What happens to children or young people if they use tobacco in any way?—­“They are not healthy; they are not strong; they do not grow fast; they look pale and sickly.”

How does the tobacco poison hurt their minds?—­“They cannot learn fast; they often forget what they have learned.”

What often makes tobacco-chewers, snuffers, and smokers disagreeable to clean people?—­“Their breath smells of tobacco; their clothes smell of tobacco; they poison the air with tobacco-fumes; some have the filthy habit of spitting tobacco-juice wherever they happen to be.”

What other harm does the use of tobacco do to people?—­“It makes them waste time and money; it leads some to drink alcoholic liquors and to go with bad company.”

If you are wise how will you treat tobacco?—­“I will let it alone.”

If you have begun to use it what had you better do?—­“Give it up to-day.”

Why to-day?—­“Because the longer I use it the harder it will be for me to give it up.”

If you keep on using it what will you be?—­“A tobacco slave.”

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BLACKBOARD OUTLINE.

TOBACCO. 
POISONS IN TOBACCO SMOKE.  EFFECTS OF THE POISONS.  Carbonic acid Causes sleepiness and headache.  Carbonic oxide Causes trembling of the muscles and
heart. 
Ammonia Bites the tongue; makes too much
work for the salivary glands. 
Nicotine See below.

NICOTINE
IS CAUSES
Odorous, Weakness,
Pungent, Nervousness,
Emetic, Dizziness,
Poisonous, Nausea,
Pain-soothing, Faintness,
Sleep-producing, i.e. Narcotic.  Loss of strength,
Stupor,
If taken in large quantities Convulsions and Death.