Tobacco and Deafness

A doctor claims that using tobacco worsens hearing and “cautions moderation in the use of the drug.”

Tobacco has been discovered by M. Delie, a French physiologist, to have a selective action upon the auditory nerve. He therefore cautions moderation in the use of the drug, and avoiding it altogether where deafness has already begun, or where there is a family history of such troubles.

“Tobacco and Deafness,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed February 19, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/322.