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An Outrage

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Feb 23, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 8.

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An Outrage.

An Indianapolis child became a smoker under two years of age, beginning with very mild cigarettes, which his mother taught him to use in order to keep him quiet, and soon taking to strong cigars with great enjoyment. But at four he is in a hospital, undergoing treatment for spinal troubles brought on by the effect of the tobacco on his nerves.—Ex.
The only wonderful thing about this is that any mother could do so foolish a thing. The result is a natural consequence. If the mother had systematically drugged her child with any other poison, she would have been arrested, but tobacco is a legitimate poison.