Vanity, All Is Vanity

"VANITY,"
'ALL IS VANITY.'
A lecture on Tobacco and its effects
DEDICATED TO THE PUBLIC BY ELDER J. J. CRANMER, Editor
and proprietor of the (G)ospel (M)onitor, (H)annibal (M)issouri.
WILL HEALTH REIGN IN A DISEASED BODY? WISDOM
TREADS NO PATH WITH FOLLEY.
The MIND is all there is! It feels, knows, moves, acts, thinks, and sees.
The mind has supreme control of the body in sickness and in health.
See the Rulings of Nature.
Habit is harder to serve than a king, its taxes are greater, they not only
come yearly, but daily and hourly, on body mind and pocket. You are
bound in her chains and must answer her calls.
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The RULINGS OF NATURE we'll send you. We'll give you the work
of the brain. Cast the glory of heaven about you, And arise for your
Works are inane, You are dead said the scoffs of the stranger; A laugh
for the cynic and clown. Go look; from the King to the granger, See the
slaves the Tobacco-leaf bound. * * * * * O'er the graves we have
marched in the past time, Still praying for dews of reform While
raining down showers of poison, On those we should keep from its
harm.
TOBACCO
NICOTINA Nicotianin. POISONS!

COURAGE! MAN, COURAGE!!
"Strive; for the grasp of the destroyer is upon you, and if you be not
wrenched away, it will palsy you and crush you. Strive for the foe has
seized upon your vitals: he holds possession of your Fort and renders
your will a thing to be controled instead of a controling power. It chains
the intellect and bids defiance to your better judgment. Strive like one
who knows he has grappled with Death and the victory must be won or
self be lost!"
TOBACCO should never be mentioned except as a poison, one of the
most active and fatal of poisons; it is the only herb known to possess
two active deadly poisons, NICOTINA and NICOTIANIN: It is really
so fatal that doctors seldom administer it, and never internally. For an
over dose of Opium, Arsenic, or Strychnine, when taken in time, there
is a cure, but for an over dose of tobacco there is none; its effect on the
system is Paleness, Nausea, Giddiness, Lessening of the heart's action,
Vomiting, Purging, Cold-sweating, and utter Prostration, such as no
other poison can induce, then death! Its evils are numerous we will
notice a few as follows.
1. It impregnates the whole system with two of the most fatal poisons,
NICOTINA, and NICOTIANIN.
2. With either of which the system is subjected to continuous repair,
therefore Doctors seldom advise one to quit it. It is too much like
taking bread and butter from their babe's mouths.
3. It enslaves a man so that it requires a powerful exertion to break its
chains and fetters to regain their freedom.
4. It causes dyspepsia by spitting off the saliva that ought to go to
digest the food, aid the digestive system, and to regulate and heal the
bowels.
5. When you breathe the smoke it produces asthma and lays the
foundation for a train of other fatal diseases.

6. In breathing the two poisons into the lungs, often produces paralysis
of the lungs and consumption.
7. It gradually weakens and destroys the whole nervous system and is
the cause of a large majority of cases of Insanity, which can readily be
found in all stages, among those who use tobacco.
8. It makes one appear to be ill-bred and extremely distasteful in
society.
9. It is said by critics to entirely destroy a certain faculty of the mind.
10. It renders one's breath very repugnant to a companion.
11. It is continually drawing on the pocket for the small change that
might be laid up.
12. When taken as snuff it wonderfully impairs and often paralyzing
and destroys the Olfactory nerves and deprives one of the sense of
smell.
13. It creates a craving for Alcoholic drinks, it prostrates the system to
such an extent that nature calls for aid by stimulants, hence the craving
for drinks, peppers, mustards, &c., &c.
14. It creates an inordinate desire for excitement such as Noose and
Novel reading, and a loathing of Science and Philosophy.
15. The smoke has a wonderful tendency to weaken and impair the
eye-sight.
16. Its use is an evil example to the young who look to us for advice
and protection from evil.
17. It decomposes and devitalizes the electrovita fluid in the human
system.
18. The system of the tobacco users is always in a morbid condition, as
proof when you are sick you can't use it; for be it known that two

morbid conditions can not exist in the system at the same time; one will
drive out