Pure Tobacco Harms Health
Once in a while a dealer in harmful things is frank enough to tell the plain truth about the stuff he sells. There is a Philadelphia tobacconist, for example—Votterlein of Chestnut Street—who distributes cheap fans on which he advertises his wares after this sort: "The consumer in buying our segars can rely upon getting the pure tobacco free from all ingredients, which injures the health and breaks down the constitution." Possibly if he had been more careful of his grammar and punctuation he would have said something else, but it is better as it stands. In tobacco as in liquors it is the pure article that works the mischief. There is never any adulteration that makes the thing worse than the original simple. It is the pure liquor or the pure tobacco "which injures the health and breaks down the constitution." —S. S. Times.