Welcome to the book Habits That Handicap, by Charles B. Towns, Ph.D. (1915).
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Tobacco pushers and their accessories conceal the breadth of tobacco effects, the enormity of the tobacco holocaust, and the long record of documentation. The concealment process is called the "tobacco taboo." Other pertinent words are "censorship" and "disinformation." Here is the text by Dr. Charles B. Towns (b. 1862) of an early exposé (1915) with a section on tobacco dangers. It cites facts you don't normally ever see, due to the "tobacco taboo." The phrase "tobacco taboo" is the term for the pro-tobacco censorship policy—to not report most Habits That Handicap. As you will see, information about the tobacco danger was already being circulated in 1915, 49 years before the famous 1964 Surgeon General Report. Be prepared. Also note that Dr. Towns cites avoidance of prevention. |
Habits That Handicap
The Menace of Opium, Alcohol,
and Tobacco and the Remedy,
by Charles B. Towns, Ph.D.
(New York: The Century Co,
August 1915)
Ed. Note: For an overview of why the inaction on the "holocaust"-numbers killer, tobacco, despite its many adverse effects, see our sites on revenge motivation, and politician bribery and racism. |
Preface | iv |
Introduction | |
I The Peril of the Drug Habit | |
II The Need of Adequate Specific Treatment | |
III The Drug-Taker and the Physician | |
IV Psychology and Drugs | |
V Alcoholics | |
VI Help for the Hard Drinker | |
VII Classsification of Alcoholics | |
VIII The Injuriousness of Tobacco | 140 |
143 | |
152 | |
159 | |
IX Tobacco and the Future of the Race | 162 |
163 | |
172 | |
X The Sanatorium | 174 |
XI Preventive Measures for the Drug Evil | |
XII Classification of Habit-Forming Drugs | |
XIII Psychology of Addiction | |
XIV Relation of Drugs and Alcohol to Insanity | |
248 | |
249 | |
Appendix |
Dr. Jackson (1826) Dr. Thorn (1845) Dr. Titus Coan (1850) Dio Lewis (1882) Neal Dow (1882) Blatin (1882) |
Ed. Note: His theoretical "supposition" was verified by medical research, see data on tobacco-induced brain damage, especially on abulia, especially modern data on tobacco radioactivity leading to bleeding in the brain, thus impairing reasoning and ethical controls. |
Ed. Note: Dr. Benjamin Rush, Essays (1798), p 267, had said similarly. |
Ed. Note: See the subsequent case of Adolf Hitler. |
Ed. Note: In 1868, James Parton had written similarly. |
Dr. Jackson (1826) Dr. Thorn (1845) Dr. Titus Coan (1850) Dio Lewis (1882) Neal Dow (1882) Blatin (1882) |
Dr. John Lizars (1859), James Parton (1868), Rev. John Wight (1889), Dr. Charles Slocum (1909), Prof. Bruce Fink (1915), and a related medical history overview. And see data linking smoking to national collapses dating from the Spanish conquistadores' conquest of Mexico (1519). André Thevet tracked underlying sexual impact, reported in 1555. |
Ed. Note: Now in 2005, 90 years later, more tobacco effects are known. |
Ed. Note: Consider
One treatment-focused scam is to For more on money-motivation, see “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”—Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (1935). Note also his Profits of Religion (1917), § on Charity, § on Holy Oil, and § on prevention. George Orwell said, "The process [of deception] has to be conscious [intentional], or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt. . . . To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies - all this is indispensably necessary.”—in the book Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Be alert for such type counselors, not to mention so-called "counselors" who are alleged to be "recovered" (so-called) addicts or mentally ill individuals! e.g., smokers, alcoholics, drug abusers! When having residual effects of such disorder(s), they foreseeably sabotage prevention, refuse to recognize, or at best, understate medical truths, including especially the role of tobacco in mental disorder and brain damage. This combination of the mentally ill as patients and as so-called counselors is called an "alliance." The counseling system is thus unethical in enabling this sabotage, by, e.g., admitting such individuals (with a record of addiction/brain damage/mental illness, thus having the permanent residual brain-damage effects of same) into college and graduate school programs as future "counselors," to foreseeably become anti-prevention saboteurs. For information on other abuses by counselors, see e.g., Karen Winner, Divorced From Justice: The Abuse of Women and Children by Divorce Lawyers and Judges (Regan Books/Harper Collins, 1996) with foreword by Christopher Darden. |
Ed. Note: "[I]t is evident that . . . punishment is not imposed until after the deed is done. It is . . . directed against effects, but it does not touch the causes, the roots, of the evil." "[W]e have but to look around us . . . to see that the criminal code . . . remedies nothing." The hope is "That which has happened in medicine [prevention] will happen in criminology."—Enrico Ferri, Lecture (Univ. of Naples, 24 April 1901), in The Positive School of Criminology: Three Lectures Given at the University of Naples, Italy, on April 22, 23 and 24, 1901 (Chicago: C.H. Kerr & Co., 1906 and 1912) . Ferri (1856-1929) was a legal scholar involved in developing criminology as an academic discipline.
"[L]ike eruptions on the human body," crimes "are symptoms of more fundamental conditions of personal or social deficiency or imbalance." For "the crime problem to be solved, the attack must be made at the source of the trouble and the remedy must be found in the removal of the causes."—Henry W. Anderson, Chairman, Committee on the Causes of Crime, National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (1931). Eliminate the cause; the effect disappears. "Sublatâ causa, tollitur effectus: Otez la cause, l'effet disparaît."—Dr. Hippolyte Adéon Dépierris, Physiologie Sociale Paris, Dentu, 1876), p 328. If you would prefer to NOT be a crime victim, and would rather that the incident (e.g., your being murdered) be prevented (as distinct from your name being gleefully added by media ghouls, presstitutes, and pseudo-prosecutors more concerned about job security than you, to the list of those re whom the perpetrator was 'punished' or 'rehabilitated'), you should know that the 90% factor, tobacco use, in crime has long, long been known, indeed, for centuries. And equally as liking, prevention has been refused to be done by the same occupations. See governmental corruption references. |
And, as Towns is repeatedly cited
in authors from that era,
authors whose writings can
sometimes be found at this site,
you may do a search his his name / book title,
and find selections, that authors of the era,
found particularly useful.
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Help for the Hard Drinker; What Can Be Done to Save the Man Worth While (New York, 1912)
"The Injury of Tobacco and its Relation to other Drug Habits," 83 Cent. Mag. 766-772 (1912) The Peril of the Drug Habit, and the Need of Restrictive Legislation (New York: Century Co., 1912) Federal Responsibility in the Solution of the Habit-forming Drug Problem (New York, 1916) The Personal Problem Confronting the Physician in the Treatment of Drug and Alcoholic Addiction (New York: Charles B. Towns Hospital, 1917) The Present and Future of Narcotive Pathology, in Three Parts (New York: Charles B. Towns Hospital, 1917) The Alcoholic Problem Considered in its Institutional, Medical, and Sociological Aspects, in Three Parts (New York, The C. B. Towns Hospital, 1917) Habits That Handicap: The Remedy for Narcotic, Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Addictions (New York; London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1919) |
Other Books on Tobacco Effects
The Use and Abuse of Tobacco, by Dr. John Lizars (1859) Tobacco and Its Effects: Report to the Wisconsin Board of Health by G. F. Witter, M.D. (1881) The Case Against the Little White Slaver, by Henry Ford (1914) (P 13 cites Dr. Towns) Click Here for Titles of Additional Books |
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