And tobacco – nicotine – is a very serious poison. It is a poison that destroys the cells. I have said that it is a slow poison because one does not feel it immediately except when one smokes for the first time and it makes one very ill… The first time the body reacts violently, it vomits, it tells you: "I do not want it at any cost."
You compel it with your mental and vital stupidity, you force it to do so; it does not react any longer and so lets itself be poisoned gradually until it decomposes. The functioning deteriorates; it is the nerves that are affected; they no longer transmit the will because they are affected, they are poisoned. They no longer have the strength to transmit the will. And finally people begin to tremble, they have nervous movements. There are quite a few, one does not need to go very far to find them. And they are like that only because they have committed excesses: they drank and smoked. And when they lift an object, their hands shake (gesture). That is what one gets by doing this.
