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In what way does tobacco hurt the stomach?--"It poisons the saliva and
prevents it from preparing the food to enter the stomach."
What harm does tobacco do inside the stomach?--"It weakens the stomach and
makes it unfit to change the food into chyme."
How will wise children treat tobacco?--"Let it alone. They will not chew,
snuff, or smoke the vile weed."
Is alcohol food or poison?--"It is poison."
How do we know it is not food?--"Because it cannot be changed into blood."
How has this been proved?--"Alcohol has been found in the brain, and other
parts of drunkards, with the same smell and the same power to burn easily
which it had when it was taken into the mouth."
How do you know it is a poison?--"Because it does harm to every part of the
body, beginning in the stomach."
What harm does alcohol do in the stomach?--"It hinders the stomach from
doing its work; it burns the coats of the stomach; it destroys the gastric
juice; it hardens the food, so that it cannot be dissolved by the gastric
juice."
What does the stomach do with alcohol?--"Drives it out as soon as
possible."
Where does the stomach send it?--"Into the liver."
Where does the liver send it?--"To the heart; and the heart sends it to the
lungs.
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