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Tobacco depletes the body of vitamins A, C, and E, which can result in any of the following: dry hair, dry skin, dry eyes, poor growth, night blindness, abscesses, insomnia, fatigue, reproductive system problems, sinusitis, pneumonia, frequent respiratory problems, skin disorders, weight loss, rickets, osteomalacia, nervousness, muscle spasms, leg cramps, extremity numbness, bone malformations, decayed teeth, difficulty in walking, irritability, restlessness, profuse sweating, increased uric acid (gout), joint damage, damaged red blood cells, destruction of nerves, infertility, miscarriage, and many types of cancer.
Historian James Merrell notes several errors in Benjamin West’s famous 1771 painting, William Penn’s
Lewis Hine’s 1910 photograph shows a tenement alley in New York City. More famous for his “unsettlin
James A. Garfield lies mortally wounded. After failing to locate the bullet, surgeons called in Alex
Jan van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife (detail).
Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando), Moon Pine, Ueno, No. 89 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, The Adoration of the Magi.